State ha6 the right to claim from the State which committed the wrongful act pecuniary compensation in the measure necessary to make good any damage not covered by restitution in kind. 2.Pecuniary compensation under the present Article shall cover any economically assessable damage of the injured State deriving from the wrongful act, including any moral damage sustained by the injured State’s nationals. 3.Compensation under the present Article, includes any profit6 the loss of which derive6 from the internationally wrongful act. 4.For the purpose6 of the present A;-ticle damage deriving from an internationally wrongful act is any loss connected with such act by an uninterrupted causal link. 5.Whenever the damage in question is partly due to cau6es other than the internationally wrongful act, including possibly the contributory negligence of the injured State, the compensation shall be reduced accordingly. ” - 189 -unlawful act in such a manner as to re-establish, in favour of the injured party, the situation that would exist the wrongful act had not been committed zQB/. In view of the incompletenese that frequently charaaterised restitution in kind, it was obviously through pecuniary compensation that the principle could eventually be effectively applied, Reparation by equivalent was qualified by three features that distinguished it from other forms of reparation, The first wae that it could be used to compensate for damage which could be evaluated in economic terms, including moral damage to nationals. The second was that, although some measure of retribution was to be found in any form of reparation, reparation by equivalent performed by nature an essentially and predominently compenoatory function. The third wa6 that the objective of reparation by equivalent was to compensate for all the economically assessable damage caueed by the internationally wrongful act, but oniy such damage. Indications to that effect were to be found in the relevant
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international law and the concept of reparation for internationally wrongful acts, specifically in the context of pecuniary compensation for damage caused. The language used is formal and technical, suggesting that the text is part of a legal document or treaty. The concepts discussed, such as restitution in kind, reparation by equivalent, and internationally wrongful acts, are also characteristic of international law. Given these characteristics, it is likely that the text is related to the field of international law and its application to international relations.

**Category**
International law