• Convention - implies a multilateral treaty e.g. European Convention on Human Rights.
  
  

• Protocol - usually indicates a treaty which amends or supplements an earlier principal treaty e.g. the protocols amending/supplementing the European Convention on Human Rights since it was made in 1950.
  
  

• Exchange of notes - usually a bilateral agreement on a subject of no great general importance.
   

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