Sentences with phrase «of multilateral»

That's why the German research demonstrates the necessity of multilateral legislation in the US and worldwide.

The following Frequently Asked Questions provide background on the objectives and purpose of this multilateral meeting.

This intention is clear, for example, from the commitment which the EU and Canada made in the CETA to «pursue with other trading partners the establishment of a multilateral investment tribunal and appellate mechanism for the resolution of investment disputes».

Pursuant to article 9 of this multilateral treaty, disappearances violate the right to liberty and security of the person.

During law school, she interned with the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs where she drafted reports, guidelines and memoranda pertaining to the law and practice of registration and depositary functions of multilateral treaties.

The BEPS TP Reports call for changes to domestic law and to treaty provisions and for the negotiation of a multilateral instrument to be finalized in 2016.

Then there's a legal connection, because the site's in aid of a multilateral treaty.

Our international team has frontline experience of multilateral engagements with conflicting regulators, and use this to our clients advantage.

As a background, it is observed that this past year has seen the rise of populist nationalism, including skepticism of multilateral trade agreements and immigration.

Effective WTO advocacy requires, in addition to a comprehensive knowledge of WTO law, an understanding of the multilateral institutional context in which WTO dispute settlement occurs, the ability to devise effective strategies within a system that does not allow for monetary or retrospective remedies, and the capacity to present arguments in a manner which WTO adjudicators (who are drawn from a wide variety of professional backgrounds and legal cultures) will find convincing.

The proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the dramatic increase in the invocation of multilateral investment treaties (MITs) and the growing inter-play between investment and international commercial arbitration in recent years all mean that it is imperative for practitioners of international arbitration to have a clear understanding of the fundamental elements of a BIT and the issues that arise with BIT claims.

46 To that end, it should be noted that, on the basis of customary rules of general international law and those of multilateral agreements, the Head of State enjoys a particular status in international relations which entails, inter alia, privileges and immunities.

Visa Europe and Visa UK in a large number of actions in the Commercial Court in London brought by major retailers seeking damages concerning the settling and implementation of multilateral interchange fees for the Visa card payment system in Europe

«While Trump retreats from U.S. climate leadership, an unprecedented number of U.S. states (15), cities (more than 300) and businesses (more than 150) are at the COP to show America's continuing commitment to moving forward,» said Alex Hanafi, senior manager of multilateral climate strategy with the Environmental Defense Fund.

A general theme of the videoconference echoed the need for organizations to work together with synergies among international satellite programs and the importance of multilateral agreements in addressing climate monitoring.

For 18 years, Doug Norlen has conducted successful advocacy to achieve environmental, developmental and accountability policy reform of multilateral trade and finance institutions, export credit agencies and private banks.

The results of multilateral climate negotiations therefore have a huge impact on African lives.

«If we are successful, we will establish the right kind of multilateral framework that will impose constraint on countries and help create standards through taxation, quotas and the price of carbon,» said Lapouge.

management of multilateral environmental agreements may benefit both adaptation and mitigation.

Take, for example, the new issue at the heart of the multilateral negotiations: the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with climate impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

As this occurred, Hainan and the Northern Territory would become the bookends of a grand theatre of multilateral cooperation aimed at ensuring — for everyone's benefit — the security and smooth functioning of a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure.

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are a pair of multilateral trust funds that provide funding to 48 developing and middle income countries in support of low carbon and climate resilient development.

The interconnections of ideas and politics, of science and public influence, of science and propaganda gravy trains, of environmentalism and the NGOs and churches, of multilateral politics and ideas about world government, are told in fascinating detail.

In addition to working for a reform of multilateral and bilateral aid, Urgewald has also begun to monitor subsidies that the German Government provides for private sector projects in Southern countries.

«We will try to give some opportunities for its resolution outside of this multilateral setting... And I am saying that, confident that, I think China still is as desirous of an agreement, as we are.»

For the first time, the United States and China will work together and with other countries to use the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the consumption and production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), among other forms of multilateral cooperation.

I am a proponent of a multilateral world wherein trade works on the basis of bilateral and multilateral agreements between countries.

They will, so far as practicable, prefer the making of multilateral contracts pursuant to Article III of this agreement.

National contributions can be adjusted upwards over time, especially as mobilization of climate finance and other forms of multilateral cooperation which are catalysed by the new Paris agreement will allow governments to go further and faster, even before 2030.

More than 1,500 participants were invited by the UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, with more than 100 Ministers of Education, heads and members of delegations, heads of agencies and officials of multilateral and bilateral organizations, and representatives of civil society, the teaching profession, youth and the private sector.

The Peoples» Sustainability Treaties (PST) were initiated by civil society organizations to develop collective agreements for sustainable futures beyond Rio +20 and a post 2015 agenda of the multilateral system.

Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.

Labour seized on the news as further evidence the Tories are drifting away from the pursuit of multilateral disarmament and instead developing high - tech, destructive weapons.

In their view of recent Labour history, the party only made itself a credible force for power when it abandoned support for unilateral disarmament in 1989 in favour of multilateral disarmament.

Both countries are involved in a number of multilateral projects in the areas of Renewable Energy, Construction and haulage among others.

It is because of this lack of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between two countries, or through multilateral negotiations.

We all admire the UK, but internationally speaking, Britain must finally reach the 21st century, a time of multilateral relationships in a quiet, comfortable, democratic way.

But, somewhat in the shadows of these remarkable achievements in the field of multilateral trade policy, foreign investment has emerged as another important component of China's international economic relations.

However, this could be an opportune moment to start discussions of a multilateral treaty.

Open trade - a part of all multilateral meetings saw the usual narrative of commitment to more trade with lesser transaction costs.

But that isn't going to change - not least because of the sharp domestic contest about the legitimacy of multilateral agreements (on anything, and on climate change in particular).

Implementation of an agricultural programme, he added, with the help of multilateral partners, will potentially also bring about 1,732 hectares of land under irrigation through solar pumping from rivers, sinking of boreholes, rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes, and construction of new ones.

The former Scottish and defence secretary is standing down to continue his work as the chair of a multilateral nuclear disarmament group.

Changes would include a drastic increase in overseas development assistance in the field of communication and under conditions more favourable to recipient parties, the adoption of the UNCTAD Code of Transfer of Technology on the terms proposed by the developing countries, a revision of provisions on the protection of intellectual property in the GATT / TWO multilateral trade accord so as to take the interests of less powerful countries and small producers into account, and the adoption of a multilateral accord on space cooperation and equal benefits.

The policy challenge will be to find the equilibrium between the legitimate domestic concerns of national governments and the free trade rules of multilateral arrangements such as concluded by the GATT negotiations.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aid.

It was also the economic theory underlying the development assistance programs of both multilateral and national development aid programs.

The administration took credit for launching «a new era in American trade policy» by reversing decades of multilateral trade policies that it said had damaged U.S. workers and intensifying enforcement efforts.

«At a time when protectionism and inward - looking policies are proliferating, concluding the CPTPP would send a strong signal to the world about the benefits of multilateral economic cooperation.»

International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization created for the purpose of promoting global monetary and exchange stability, facilitating the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and assisting in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments for current transactions.