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From the past to the present, use of common water resources has caused conflicts between states, therefore international law has tried to prevent such conflicts. However, with scarcity of available water resources, international water conflicts have increased in recent decades; this can be considered as proof of inability of approaches adopted by states, which are based on quantitative division of water, in facing and solving such conflicts. The current research, using a descriptive-analytical method, indicates that transition from focusing on volumetric allocation of water between states sharing river to establishment of cooperation arrangements between them in order to use river in the most optimal way available and the fair sharing of benefits from this cooperation can be considered a more favourable option for using these valuable water resources. In fact, application of benefit sharing arrangements in the use of transboundary rivers, which is also supported by the fundamental principles of international water law, through transformation of win-loss result due to water sharing into a win-win result due to cooperation in the optimal use of common water resources, increases interests of states and not only prevents water conflicts, but is able to develop and strengthen international cooperation.

Since the conclusion of an international organization’s statute until its enforcement and establishing a new organization, many necessary measures should be done in order to prepare conditions for its immediate and effective operation upon its creation. Usually, it’s a preparatory commission’s duty to prepare those conditions. However, given little attention paid to the status of preparatory commissions in international law, questions may be posed such as how they are created, what are their tasks and what powers they enjoy, weather a preparatory commission is a subsidiary organ of the new organization or it has a legal personality of its own. This article aims at examining above -mentioned issues in light of current international practice and steps taken towards the creation of several important international organizations.

In modern treaty practice, there is a temporal gap between the conclusion of treaty negotiations and adoption of the text or signature, on the one hand, and the entry into force of treaty on the other. This is because in many States the entry into force of a treaties is subject to the completion of proceedings necessary for ratification or approval. But sometimes immediate application of a treaty upon conclusion of its negotiations may for different reasons be crucial for states. The provisional application of treaties is an effective mechanism to achieve this objective, and now has become a common practice. This mechanism is codified in Article 25 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. But just two allotted paragraph of that article can't answer all questions regarding the provisional applications of treaties mechanism. Thus, provisional application needs more clarifications. Therefore, examination of different aspects of provisional applications of international treaties mechanism is the purpose of this article.