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In Germany, we are pushing the ratification of the UN convention, which is a subsequent convention.
Sighs of relief greeted EU leaders’ mid-year agreement on a Reform Treaty aimed at overhauling the Union’s decision-making mechanisms, but it is still uncertain whether the new pact will survive the ratification process in 27 countries.
We believe, though, that the increased use of qualified majority voting by member governments embodied in the new treaty should also be applied to the ratification process itself.
With Indonesia’s ratification, the number of countries that have yet to do so has decreased to eight: China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, and the United States.
This was essentially the same rate of ratification found among countries that had committed no genocide.
In this context, it is perhaps to be expected that some countries might be tempted to use ratification to try to placate those pressing for improvements in human rights, thereby turning ratification into a substitute for, rather than a spur to, real improvements in human rights.
Above all, guardians of human rights must remain vigilant, viewing ratification of treaties not as the end of the struggle for human dignity, but as the beginning in an evolving campaign.
Righting the EU ConstitutionThe prospect of multiple referenda on the European Union Constitution has dramatically altered the betting on ratification.
It would take a brave gambler to bet on ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the US Senate any time soon.
The same is true of environmental action: after Australia’s belated ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2007, the US remains the only country that has not ratified the agreement.
In France in 2005, anti-EU forces claimed that the ratification of the constitutional treaty would lead to the abolition of abortion rights and French military intervention in Iraq.
In our view, the best way forward would be to decouple the part of the reforms that requires ratification by the US Congress from the rest of the package.
Removing the link between them would require the support of the US administration, but not ratification by Congress.
Next comes the ratification process; 55 countries, representing at least 55% of global emissions, will need to ratify the agreement to enable it to enter into force.
This would require prolonging the ratification deadline until 2008.
It also requires specifying a common date for ratification (through simultaneous referenda or parliamentary votes) for all countries that have not yet done so, including France and the Netherlands.
Rather, the task is to alter the political and socio-psychological context of the ratification process by addressing key questions.
But the increased trade and investment flows brought about by the TPP’s ratification and implementation will benefit even the countries that must make larger sacrifices.
Beyond that, Lugar had fully supported Obama’s vision, like that of Ronald Reagan before him, of a world without nuclear weapons, and his endorsement of the New START treaty with Russia, reducing the number of deployed strategic weapons, was crucial in securing its narrow ratification by the Senate last year.
Moreover, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which would replace a fragile international moratorium, cannot come into force without US Senate ratification.
Although German policymakers backed the ESM in June, ratification is on hold until the court’s ruling.
Bilaterally, such cooperation might involve an investment treaty, a joint intelligence task force on terrorism, a cyber-security protocol, agreed measures for managing unplanned military incidents, and mutual ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
The Truth About SovereigntyCAMBRIDGE – In the French parliament’s recent debate on Europe’s new fiscal treaty, the country’s Socialist government vehemently denied that ratification of the treaty would undermine French sovereignty.
Pragmatists acknowledge that the ratification crisis set in train by the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty has grown into a wider European problem.
So the inter-linkage between the ratification crises in Ireland and the Czech Republic is now explicit and threatens to spill over into the wider EU arena in 2009.
A final deal will almost certainly take much longer, not least because parts of it will require ratification by individual member states.
Cash-strapped European countries, however, are unlikely to agree, so guaranteeing inflamed ratification debates in Europe, too.
Even Germany’s Social Democrats, whose support Chancellor Angela Merkel needs to secure ratification in the Bundestag, appear to have granted only conditional support.
The fact that it took almost 50 years to draft and finally achieve the necessary ratification threshold demonstrates that something is very wrong with the modern system of multilateralism.
But the UN Watercourses Convention’s entry into force raises as many new questions as existed in the period before its ratification.
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