Sentences with phrase «international treaties now»

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Now in government, and indeed, in charge of Bis which houses, separately, both the arms export promotion and licensing units, Cable is hiding behind the proposed international arms trade treaty to still any moral qualms.

The lifelong oilman now leads the State Department, which oversees international climate change negotiations, programs to alleviate energy poverty and environmental treaties

The U.S. government is now engaged in preliminary negotiations on a treaty known as the International Telecommunication Regulations, which will be taken up by the World Conference on International Telecommunications in December.

But an international team of researchers, led by Oram, has now found an unexpected, growing danger to the ozone layer from substances not regulated by the treaty.

Now, more than a hundred nations have signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international treaty to reduce mercury emission levels through measures such as banning new mercury mines.

However, multinational projects could now be moving toward actually being treaty - based international organizations.

Supporters of the plan want to raise money quickly to spend much of it between now and the November negotiating session in Buenos Aires, where important details of the international treaty are to be decided.

Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this.

In particular, as part of a more qualitative approach, one needs to have a look whether the current perceived «turbulences» have also by now reached the more fundamental layers of international law, i.e. meta - rules such as the ones on sources, State responsibility, State immunity, treaty interpretation, or res judicata effect of international court decisions must be abided by the parties involved, to name but a few, the general acceptance of which is indispensable for a functioning international legal system.

Therefore, the residual «prerogative power» (powers that were once vested in the King or Queen and because they have not been given a statutory footing now vest in the ministers of the Government) to make and withdraw from international treaties can not be used to give notice under Article 50 TEU to withdraw from the European Union.

«that article now lays down a single procedure of general application concerning the negotiation and conclusion of international agreements which the European Union is competent to conclude in the fields of its activity, including the CFSP, except where the Treaties lay down special procedures.»

There has been growing pressure on Russia to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, but it is now reported that the European Commission is giving France the right to start negotiations with Russia on a bilateral treaty on international chiInternational Child Abduction, but it is now reported that the European Commission is giving France the right to start negotiations with Russia on a bilateral treaty on international chiinternational child abduction.

While we will be featuring posts over the coming days on this award that dissect and analyze the award, its international legal significance, and its larger geopolitical consequences for all claimants to the South China Sea dispute and third - party actors (such as the United States), for now, a close read of all 479 pages of this arbitral award reveals it to be an extremely rich and fertile piece of international jurisprudence, one that will certainly have far - ranging doctrinal impacts as an international judicial decision that is also an authoritative subsidiary means for determination of the international law rules under UNCLOS, especially on questions such as the: 1) normative weight of «historic rights» and differentiating the same from «historic title» and «historic rights short of sovereignty», and clarifying what could still possibly amount to historic rights that States could still validly assert within the UNCLOS treaty regime;

Allen Prince claimed there are many more Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) arbitrations now «as part of a wider investment portfolio» and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) was no exception.

But it is clear that changes have occurred at EU level in the last three years which now offer far greater opportunities for the implementation of a refuelling tax without the need for complicated international treaty changes or multi-lateral negotiation.

Mar: Landmine Action (now Action on Armed Violence) expresses support for the creation of an international treaty against robots that make their own targeting decisions.