6 international law would be seriously jeopardized if one were to decharacterize the crimes against humanity which fall under their prohibition. V. The Specificity and Integrity of Human Rights Treaties. 16. It will not be through the decomposition or fragmentation, pursuant to the application of a classic postulate of the law of treaties, of the constitutive elements of a particularly grave crime such as that of forced disappearance of person, that one will advance in those important doctrinal developments. In the present Blake case, the limitation ratione temporis to the competence of the Court not only has negative repercussions on its own competence ratione materiae, but also discloses a décalage between the law of treaties, and the International Law of Human Rights. 17. The solutions of the former, set forth in the two Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties (of 1969 and 1986), were erected to a large extent on the premise of the balance of the accord de volontés among the sovereign States themselves, with some significant concessions to the interests of the so-called international comunity (identified above all in the assertion of jus cogens in Articles 53 and 64 of both Vienna Conventions). The solutions of the latter are erected on distinct premises, opposing to those States the human beings victimized under their jurisdiction, ultimate subjects of the rights of protection. 18. Hence the ineluctable tension between one and the other, of which the problem raised in the present Blake case is but one manifestation. Among others, one may recall the system itself -voluntarist and contractualist - of reservations to treaties, enshrined in the two Vienna Conventions on the Law of 16 Treaties (Articles 19-23) (inspired in the criterion sustained by the International Court of Justice in its Advisory Opinion of 1951 on Reservations to the Convention 17 against Genocide ), which leads to a fragmentation (in bilateral relations) of the conventional obligations of the States Parties in multilateral treaties. Such system is, in my understanding, entirely inadequate to human rights treaties, which find inspiration in superior common values and are applied in conformity with the notion of collective guarantee. 19. The rightful preoccupation in safeguarding above all the integrity of human rights treaties nowadays calls for a wide revision of the individualist 18 system of reservations set forth in the two aforementioned Vienna Conventions . 15. To which one could add, in the same sense, the Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties of 1978 (Article 20). 16. In that Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice endorsed the so-called panAmerican practice relating to reservations to treaties, given its flexibility, and in search of a certain balance between the integrity of the text of the treaty and the universality of participation in it; hence the criterion of the compatibility of the reservations with the object and purpose of the treaties. Cf. International Court of Justice, Opinion on the Reservations to the Convention against Genocide, ICJ Reports (1951) pp. 15-30; and cf., a contrario sensu, the Joint Dissenting Opinion of Judges Guerrero, McNair, Read and Hsu Mo (pp. 31-48), as well as the Dissenting Opinion of Judge Álvarez (pp. 49-55), for the difficulties generated by this criterion. 17. The current work (as from 1993) of the International Law Commission of the United Nations on the topic of the Law and Practice Relating to Reservations to Treaties is thus endowed with importance; it remains to be seen whether it will or not fulfil the expectations existing nowadays about the evolution of the matter, particularly in so far as the application of human rights treaties is concerned.