The agreement/promise is worthless.
Apparently, back in 1861, Count Johann Bernhard of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen dismissed a document concerning the recognition of Italy as a nation state, writing words to the effect that the guarantees "are not worth the paper they are written on".
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