1. Chapter IV, only article 16 has been authoritatively declared to be consonant with customary international law: see Application of the Genocide Convention;Of the articles in ARSIWA, Part One,2007
2. See also para. (6) of the commentary to article 16 and para. (8) of the commentary to article 17, International Law Commission. Report on the work of its fifty-third session;See ARSIWA, arts