The treaty's enforcement clause is merely [Blank 1]: it urges signatories to disclose violations but neither requires disclosure nor prescribes a sanction for failing to do so.
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Answer: A (hortatory) and B (precatory)
The colon signals that the second part of the sentence explains the nature of the clause. Because the clause urges disclosure but imposes neither an obligation nor a penalty, it is exhortative rather than binding. “Hortatory” and “precatory” both describe language that urges or requests action without commanding it. “Peremptory” conveys the opposite sense, since it describes an imperative demand. The remaining choices do not capture the clause’s explicitly nonbinding appeal.