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Title XIII: Of the Traditional and Customary
Authorities
Article 213
The traditional and customary authorities are the guarantors of use and custom.
Article 214
The concur in the grouping of the populations and support the action of the
Decentralized Territorial Collectivities.
Article 215
They are the collaborators of the administration within respect for the freedoms and
of the rights of Man.
Article 216
An organic law determines their status and attributions.
Title XIV: Of Cooperation, of the Treaties and
International Agreements
• Treaty ratification
Article 217
The Republic of Chad may conclude with other States agreements of cooperation or
of association on the basis of the principles of equality, of mutual respect of
sovereignty, of territorial integrity, of reciprocal benefits and of national dignity.
• Reference to science
• International law
• Treaty ratification
It may create with the States organs of common management, of coordination and of
cooperation within the economic, monetary, financial, scientific, technical, military
and cultural domains.
Article 218
The President of the Republic negotiates and ratifies the treaties. He is informed of
any negotiation tending to the conclusion of an international agreement not
submitted to ratification.
• International law
• Treaty ratification
Article 219
The peace treaties, the defense treaties, the treaties of commerce, the treaties
relative to the use of the national territory or to the exploitation of the natural
resources, the agreements relative to international organization, those which
engage the finances of the State or those which are relative to the status [état] of
persons, may only be approved or ratified after the authorization of the National
Assembly.
Chad 1996 (rev. 2005)
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