12 | | | PEACEFUL INTERPRETATION Article 16 State Parties undertake to refer all disputes over the interpretation, implementation and validity of this Pact to the Court of Justice, without prejudice to the competence of the Peace and Security Council. | | OF DISPUTES State Parties involved in any dispute shall first seek a solution by negotiation, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, or resort to regional and continental mechanisms or arrangements, or other peaceful means. | | SETTLEMENT Article 15 Article 17 a) This Pact shall not derogate from, and shall not be interpreted as derogating in any way from the obligations of Member States contained in the United Nations Charter and the Constitutive Act, including the Protocol, and from the primary responsibility of the United Nations Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security. b) ‘This Pact shall not derogate from, and shall not be interpreted as derogating refugees in any guaranteed way by international instruments. whatsoever, the relevant from the rights continental of and FINAL PROVISIONS Article Pact shall be open 18 a) This to b) The instruments of ratification Chairperson of the Commission; signature accession by Member States in respective constitutional procedures; shall and ratification accordance be with deposited with or their the