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But that debate should not be allowed to mask the truth behind this treaty: the DR-CAFTA is more a pleading of special interests than a free-trade deal.
As it stands, there is no global
treaty
to protect sharks.
He is understood to have used this routine monthly meeting of EU finance ministers to signal to Osborne that the United Kingdom should forget any ideas it may have about major
treaty
changes.
By the standards of a traditional treaty, it falls woefully short.
The international legal gold standard is a treaty, a binding document that can be enforced by courts and arbitration tribunals.
An executive-legislative agreement would have the same status as a treaty, except that a
treaty
must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, whereas an executive-legislative agreement must be adopted by the Senate and the House under the same rules that apply to all domestic legislation.
Moreover, unlike in a traditional international treaty, the obligations of the Paris agreement are not fixed.
The trouble is that these aspirations are not matched by the commitments called for by the
treaty.
It set up a Convention, which produced a draft treaty, and soon an Intergovernmental Conference will try to take the project to a conclusion.
The reform
treaty
that is to be adopted in 2009 is aimed at overcoming the EU’s supposed “democratic deficit.”
Preserving the democratic life of the EU and its member states implies a duty – which should be enshrined in the
treaty
– to uphold standards of official behavior that today’s citizens demand.
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.
Despite the current gridlock, however, the 111th Congress managed to pass a major fiscal stimulus, health-care reform, financial regulation, an arms-control treaty, and revision of the military policy on homosexuality.
America’s main priority now is to ensure that the peace
treaty
with Israel is maintained.
On October 24, people in nearly every country will be taking action to raise awareness of the need for an international
treaty
to bring our atmosphere back to 350 ppm of CO2.
Its independence was secured not only by national legislation within the member states, but also by a
treaty
between them.
It is no surprise that Moscovici is beginning to push for a “collective European decision” to relax the fiscal treaty’s terms, given that French compliance would require massive new spending cuts.
If trade agreements in the twenty-first century are about setting rules that raise the standards of international commerce, it does little good to establish those rules one
treaty
at a time.
The editorials accepted the
treaty
with the United States that serves as a basis for Japanese security, but rejected the idea that Japan has a right to collective self-defense.
Yet China remains the stumbling block, refusing to enter into a water-sharing
treaty
with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary river flows.
But the French National Assembly never ratified that treaty, so it never entered into force.
Because each accession
treaty
must be agreed unanimously, the potential for deadlock is obvious.
We should probably forget about any
treaty
changes at the moment.
The Promise of Euro-Atlantic Missile DefenseBRUSSELS – The new strategic arms reduction
treaty
(START) that Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and US President Barack Obama just signed in Prague is an historic achievement, and an inspiration for further progress in global arms control.
In this respect, the news that the US and Russia have agreed on a follow-up
treaty
to START that will substantially cut both countries’ nuclear arsenals provides a good backdrop.
From China’s perspective, no
treaty
has binding force once it has served its immediate purpose, as officials recently demonstrated by trashing the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration that paved the way for Hong Kong’s handover in 1997.
Beyond the arguments about the wisdom of this treaty, this agreement seems certain to raise the probability of a negative internationalization of Colombia‘s problems.
To lose out in this way, however, will only repeat the tragedy of the Russia/NATO Founding Act when, by signing and ratifying that treaty, Russia legitimized NATO's eastward expansion.
Not only did France commit herself to a watertight international ban on all nuclear explosions, to be agreed by international
treaty
at the end of 1996.
It is not long ago that French experts had argued that the
treaty
banning nuclear explosions, which the nuclear weapons states have committed themselves to sign by the end of 1996, would have to allow small scale nuclear tests if only to reassure French nuclear bombs against the problem of nuclear ageing', the uncertainty whether all parts of the atomic bomb remain reliable.
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