3 Trinidad and Tobago has exercised its sovereign right to denounce and withdraw from the Convention. No State, however, having committed itself to an international agreement, can in good faith refuse to abide by those obligations which it unambiguously undertook to honour during the period of the treaty’s validity. This would make a mockery of international law and, in the particular case of human rights treaties, would undermine a regime of international concern for the individual human being that dates back at least to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That there is emerging a clear tendency on the part of Commonwealth Caribbean states in this dismal direction, with its implications for the integrity and inclusiveness of the Inter-American system, is a matter of the very gravest concern. Oliver Jackman Judge Pablo Saavedra Alessandri Secretary