example, provides for a six month notice period’. At the universal level, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for its part provides for a three-month notice period‘. The Court does not explain why it prefers to be guided by the practice in the Inter-American system rather than by the practices in the United Nations system or the European system, which are different. 14. As for the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, it was noted above that the Court in fact applied it directly without any prior discussion on the possible analogy between the withdrawal from a convention and the withdrawal from a unilateral act [paragraph 5 supra]. 15. Considering the silence of the applicable instruments and in particular, of the Protocol establishing the Court, on the withdrawal of the declaration and the period of notice, the Court in fact, ought to have retained the criterion of reasonable period set by the ICJ in the Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), instead of the fixed deadlines that are not applicable before it, with respect to the withdrawal of optional declarations of acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court: “\..the right of immediate termination of declarations with indefinite duration is far from established. It appears from the requirements of good faith that they should be treated, by analogy, withdrawal according from to the law of treaties, which or termination of treaties requires a reasonable that contain no provision time for regarding the duration of their validity. Since Nicaragua has in fact not manifested any intention to withdraw its own declaration, the question of what reasonable period of notice would legally be required does not need to be further examined: it need only be observed that from 6 to 9 April would not amount to a "reasonable time". 3 Article 58 of the Convention, 4'" November 1950, as amended. 4 Article 12 of the Optional Protocol, 16'" December 1966. 5 Judgment of 26'" November 1984 (Jurisdiction of the Court and Admissibility of the Application) /CU Reports 1984, p.420 paragraph 63. Even if the Court makes reference to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties which provides, as mentioned above, a notice of one year, it insists on and applies the criterion of “a reasonable time” M & oa" / / | gO /