The purpose of this text is to discuss specific reservations to the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents (the Hague Convention), which have been submitted in recent years by two new acceding States: Indonesia and Rwanda. These reservations are disadvantageous to the submitting party and mean a restriction in the application of the convention’s mechanisms to its own documents. Indonesia’s accession seems particularly important, given the economic weight of the acceding state and the objections raised to these reservations. This article analyses the reservations made in the light of the rules of general treaty law and answers the question of the extent to which raising objections to such reservations may also have adverse consequences for the objecting State.
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