Sentences with phrase «served under the convention»

I was referred to the Riyadh Convention and told that if documents were to be served under that Convention, they had to be sent to the court of the district in which the person to be notified resided.

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The 2016 flagbearer of the People's National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama, says his new position as an Ambassador - at - large under the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) administration, will afford him an opportunity to serve Ghana.

The fact that these laws are signed by former governors in the exercise of their functions as public officials and now benefiting from the entitlements under such laws while serving as senators and ministers raise serious conflict of interest issue under paragraph 5 of article 8 of the convention.»

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

The latest such informal treaty text to speed around the halls at the Bella Center was the most important — a six - page partial draft summarizing the work of what's called the Ad - Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention (which basically means an unofficial compilation of the views of all of 192 countries that have signed onto the original 1992 climate treaty, which serves as a foundation for whatever comes next).

The GCF was established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and also serves the Paris Agreement.

Marrakech is the 22nd conference of the parties under the 1992 UN framework convention on climate change — COP 22; the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol — CMP 12; and the first session of the conference of the parties serving as the meeting of the parties to the Paris Agreement — CMA1.

Eligibility of Annex I Parties to participate in the mechanisms under Articles 6, 12 and 17 Elections - Information on the election and membership of the bodies of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual on Accounting of Emissions and Assigned Amounts FCCC / KP / CMP / 2017/4 Twelfth Annual Report of the Compliance Committee to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol Previous annual reports of the Compliance Committee

Moreover, the U.S. State Department — whose Office of Children's Issues serves as the Central Authority for the United States under the Convention has long espoused and argued for — such an interpretation and the U.S. Government submitted an amicus brief supporting the father's position.

Chambers» request failed to meet the Convention's terms, even as it gave him an advantage under the act in terms of time served.

The Claimants made a number of points in relation to service: first, they said that the Riyadh Convention was permissive in providing for service or notification by the means set out, not mandatory; secondly, they said that if it was mandatory it did not set out the documents which had to be served or notified in the prescribed manner, which was a matter for the DIFC Court; thirdly, and as an overriding point, if the KRG was not immune from suit, there had to be some way to enforce the Awards and the KRG could not be allowed to stymie service or notification under the Riyadh Convention by effectively claiming sovereign immunity unjustifiably.

If it continues to grow and more states accede, some are suggesting that the Convention could serve as a template for a further treaty introducing a multilateral investment court system for resolution of investor - state disputes under existing investment treaties.