Sentences with phrase «draft treaty»
A "draft treaty" is a preliminary version of a formal agreement or contract between countries or organizations. It is a starting point for negotiations and discussions before finalizing the terms and conditions of the treaty. Full definition
Our campaign action this week was successful as the UN Human Rights Council voted on 26 June to start drafting a treaty on stopping human rights abuses by transnational corporations.
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The latest draft treaty does not specifically name thiomersal, but there is a clause that leaves the door open for additional items to be added.
The mediator's proposals presented in draft treaty were unacceptable to the people and Government of Belize and were rejected.
«While much has been said and written about the science of climate change and the economic implications of the proposed Kyoto Protocol, little attention has been given to the effect of this sweeping and hastily drafted treaty on the sovereignty and national security of the United States,» read the the letter from R. Bruce Josten, the Chamber's Executive Vice President of Government Affairs, to Representative Lois Caps.
Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier pre-empted publication of the 120 - page draft treaty with the promise that its 168 paragraphs would contain no surprises.
UPDATE 26 June 2014: Victory at the UN Human Rights Council — the resolution to draft the treaty was passed, despite opposition from the US and EU.
The latest news is the European Union is opposing the resolution put forward by Ecuador and South Africa for a working group to draft the treaty.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting at the moment (10 — 27 June) and an international civil society campaign is calling for it to set up a Working Group to draft this treaty.
On the 10th December 1991, John Major returned to London from the Dutch city of Maastricht, where he and other European leaders had drafted the treaty that would establish the European Union.
The most recent example came at the 2015 Conference on Disarmament, where China and Russia proposed the «no first placement» initiative (the so - called PPWT), calling on nations not to place weapons in space, an addition to a draft treaty that would outlaw the weaponization of space (CD / 1985).
In a vote of 126 in favor to four against, with 46 abstentions, the US voted against asking the UN General Assembly to urge an early start on updating the draft treaty.
He says there was no draft treaty, just draft conclusions.
«My own view is that in its present form the substantial differences between the draft treaty and the old constitution mean that a referendum is not required,» he clarified.
But Mr Campbell, on the eve of his party conference in Brighton, said he still opposed the Conservative and TUC call for a referendum on the draft treaty agreed by EU leaders.
He was among the first to publicly raise concerns about missile defense strategies, AAAS noted, developing a draft treaty to ban space weapons and presenting it to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
«The draft treaty from Russia and China seeks to ban the very things that they are so actively pursuing,» Krepon says.
Following agreement reached in May, 1988 a Joint Belize - Guatemala Commission has been set up to draft a treaty to resolve the problem.
And so the President's commitment is operative regardless of whether a draft treaty is delivered in Paris this month, or one isn't.
If some future president calls up the secretary of state or the director of Central Intelligence, and says, «Gee, I have this draft treaty on my desk, should I sign it?
The agreement was approved by the climate conference plenary, making it a draft treaty.
The whole point of a peer review system would be to get on with the work of cutting emissions instead of wrangling over every word of a draft treaty.
However, the draft treaty, drawn up by the other 27 EU member states, gives the ECJ jurisdiction over any treaty disputes once Britain leaves.
The draft treaty also contains the option to keep Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union.
The only thing the Court requires is «sufficient information» about the hypothetical legal scheme that is going to bind the Union, and in this case it surely has it: there is a draft treaty.
«Extending the draft treaty's 50 year intellectual property - based rights to webcasters... was expressly opposed by the clear majority of countries this week, and has consistently been rejected by WIPO member states in the last two meetings of the Committee in 2004 and 2005.»