Preliminary Remarks. The third element that could create unwitting discrepancies and hence an additional source of fragmentation of the uniform regime envisaged by the drafters of the Conventions may be the existence of different linguistic versions of the Conventions. As a reminder, the only authentic version of the 1929 Warsaw Conven- tion is French, and the authentic versions of the 1999 Montreal Convention are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.210 The 1955 Hague Protocol was drafted in 3 authentic languages – English, French and Spanish – but its final clauses provide that in case of inconsistency, the French version shall prevail. The following analysis will examine how the Conventions’ translations and their drafting in multiple authentic versions potentially affected their uniformity.211
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Sources: Regime for International Air Carrier Liability, Montreal Convention, The Regime for International Air Carrier Liability