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Removing the reference to the priority of international human rights treaties over other international treaties would mean that human rights treaties would no longer be recognized internally as having precedence over other treaties in case of contradiction. Although the state will remain bound by its international human rights treaty obligations by virtue of the principle of pacta sunt servanda, this has the potential to weaken the status of such treaties in the national legal order. In addition, the legal status of international human rights treaties in the domestic legal order is definitely one of the decisive factors affecting their implementation in domestic law.