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Article 4.Protection of sovereigntyNotes by the Secretariat1. For the origin of the text of article 4, see article 3 of the convention and underarticle 1 of the convention, the proposal submitted by Germany in the context of thepreparatory stage of the negotiations before the establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee(A/AC.254/5). At the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Poland proposed thatparagraphs 3 and 4 of article 2 of the draft convention should be placed in a separate article(see article 3 of the convention, footnote 32). At the tenth session of the Ad HocCommittee, there was agreement that these paragraphs should form new article 2 ter, whichwas subsequently renumbered and became article 4 of the convention (see the final textof the convention, as included in the report of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383, sect. IV,draft resolution, annex I), that was submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuantto resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999).A. Approved text adopted by the General Assembly(see resolution 55/25, annex I)Article 4Protection of sovereignty1. States Parties shall carry out their obligations under this Conventionin a manner consistent with the principles of sovereign equality and territorialintegrity of States and that of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of otherStates.2. Nothing in this Convention entitles a State Party to undertake in theterritory of another State the exercise of jurisdiction and performance of functionsthat are reserved exclusively for the authorities of that other State by its domesticlaw.37