دولت یا سازمان بین‌المللی، به‌عنوان دولت یا سازمان زیان‌دیده، حق دارد مسئولیت سازمان بین‌المللی دیگری را استناد کند، هرگاه تعهد نقض‌شده در برابر آن دولت یا سازمان، گروهی از دولت‌ها یا سازمان‌ها، یا جامعه بین‌المللی در کلیت آن بر عهده بوده باشد و نقض، آن دولت یا سازمان را به‌طور خاص متأثر کرده یا وضعیت سایر ذی‌نفعان را به‌طور اساسی تغییر داده باشد.
A State or an international organization is entitled as an injured State or an injured international organization to invoke the responsibility of another international organization if the obligation breached is owed to:
(a) that State or the former international organization individually;
(b) a group of States or international organizations including that State or the former international organization, or the international community as a whole, and the breach of the obligation:
(i) specially affects that State or that international organization; or
(ii) is of such a character as radically to change the position of all the other States and international organizations to which the obligation is owed with respect to the further performance of the obligation.