the African Court”).The Appellant further, contended that all the EAC Partner States have signed, ratified, or acceded to the Treaty and have thereby undertaken to be governed in accordance with Article 6 (d) of the Treaty which obliges every EAC Partner State to promote and protect “human rights in accordance with the provisions of the Charter.” 21. The Appellant went further to mention the requirement of Article 126 of the Treaty under which, all Partner States are enjoined to cooperate in legal and judicial affairs; to harmonize their national laws which appertain to the Community; and, under Articles 130 and 131 of the Treaty, to honor their commitments under the Treaty in respect of multinational and international organizations especially the African Union and the United Nations. 22. The Appellant relied on the Vienna Convention under which, a Partner State cannot invoke its own internal laws to defend its failure to comply with its international obligations. According to him, the failure, delay or neglect of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Respondents to deposit the declarations under Articles 5 (3) and 34 (6) of the Protocol to the Charter is not justifiable since they have already ratified the said Protocol; and, by ratification, they have expressed their consent to be bound by the provisions of the Protocol. To that end, the Appellant averred that in accordance with the provisions of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the Partner States are bound to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of the Treaty. 9