Assertion (A): Article 19 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) provides that the…

Both the assertion and reason are true, and the reason explains the qualified freedom to make reservations. A sovereign State can seek to exclude or modify the effect of particular treaty provisions when expressing its consent to be bound. Article 19 limits that freedom where the treaty prohibits the reservation, permits only specified reservations that do not include it, or where the reservation conflicts with the treaty's object and purpose.