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Deleted articlesNotes by the Secretariat1. The following separate articles were also discussed in the context of the negotiationprocess of the firearms protocol, but were eventually deleted. As already indicated(see note 4 by the Secretariat concerning article 37 of the convention in part one and thechapters on deleted articles of the trafficking in persons protocol and the migrants protocol,in parts two and three, respectively), the objective of the present publication is toreflect and present the complete picture of the negotiations on the content of the conventionand its protocols, irrespective of which provisions were finally included in the approvedtexts. For this reason, it has been considered appropriate to present the drafts of these articles,as well as the discussions on their content that took place before the decision wasfinally made to delete them.Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1)SovereigntyNegotiation textsThird session: 28 April-3 May 1999“[Article […]“Sovereignty“1. States Parties shall fulfil their obligations under this Protocol in a mannerconsistent with the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity of Statesand that of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other States.“2. A State Party shall not undertake in the territory of another State Party theexercise of jurisdiction and performance of functions that are exclusively reserved tothe authorities of that other State Party by its domestic law.]”Notes by the Secretariat2. This article appeared as article 4 bis in the subsequent drafts of the protocol. Itwas proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1) during the first session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee.3. At the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, after a brief discussion, it wasdecided to defer further consideration of the proposed text of this article until the relatedprovision of the draft convention (article 2) had been further developed.727