Sentences with phrase «to ratify the treaty»

David Smith at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK says the study is solid but fears that by pointing out that most ports are not so vulnerable, «it could be used as a reason for not ratifying the treaty».

We were concerned that the government might be intending to pre-judge or pre-empt the decision of the court by ratifying the treaty while the lawfulness of doing so without a referendum was still in issue before the court.

The Constituent Seimas ratified this treaty on 6 August 1920 and the parties exchanged the ratification letters on 14 October 1920.

But 44 countries that hold nuclear technology must both sign and ratify the treaty for it to have the force of law.

They draw also on the European Union Act 2011, Pt I of which precludes the executive from ratifying any treaty which amends or replaces the EU Treaties without both a referendum and an act of parliament permitting it.

As a result, the United States never ratified the treaty nor joined the League of Nations which was its President's idea to begin with.

In most countries the process of ratifying a treaty entails putting in place domestic implementing legislation, enforceable by government agencies and the courts.

Treaties have to be ratified by the senate, and the senate would technically not be able to ratify the treaty because it would be against the law.

While some government officials admit to being «disappointed» by Heseltine's lack of action, others argue that there is little point in ratifying the treaty before it is ratified by the US, which has one of the two largest stockpiles of chemical weapons and will pay 25 per cent of the costs of the international body.

Putting aside, for the moment, that all nations capable of reaching either the Moon or Mars have signed and ratified a treaty recognizing those areas as international territory, America is the only country to have ever placed people on a body outside the Earth, and we haven't even bothered doing it in over 40 years.

Of the EU's 27 member states, only the Czech Republic has not yet ratified the treaty, which needs unanimous ratification to come into effect.

It comes after peers voted 218 to 116 to defy the government and block the extradition of any British citizens until after the US congress ratified the treaty, which was designed to speed up the transfer of terror suspects between the countries after September 11th.

His critics said that neither Brown nor Labour had a mandate to ratify the treaty without public consent.

Robinson is concerned that if plans are not made to ratify the treaty now, Heseltine will rush through the necessary legislation as the number of ratifications approaches 65.

In a sweeping Arctic national security directive issued during his last days in office, former president George W. Bush called on the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty as «the most effective way to achieve international recognition and legal certainty for our extended continental shelf.»

And we at the State Department and the Administration remain hopeful that at some point in the future the Senate will ratify that treaty so that we can become a party in that as well.

When 55 % of the attending nations ratify this treaty it will go into effect.

The U.S. Senate failed to ratify the treaty largely because of fears that emissions limits would unfairly harm certain sectors of the economy, and developed and developing countries have been at odds over historical responsibility for emissions.

It's now widely believed that the U.S. never wanted a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen at all — even though the Democrats controlled the Congress at the time and may have been able to successfully ratify the treaty — opting instead for a mostly empty pledge of billions of dollars in aid to developing nations.

The document, signed by all 197 representatives of the UN, was the first universally ratified treaty in UN history.

The terms become binding on an individual country only after its government ratifies the treaty.

Anyway, as a result of these flaws, and again having little to do with the global warming argument itself, the Senate voted 95 - 0 in 1997 not to sign or ratify the treaty unless these flaws (which still exist in the treaty) were fixed.

While the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 requires that treaties are laid before the Houses of Parliament for a period of 21 days before they are ratified, the ability of the Government to ratify treaties remains a prerogative power, as does the power to amend or withdraw from treaties.

It is generally assumed that Ottawa has the full power to negotiate, sign and ratify treaties including with respect to matters within exclusive provincial jurisdiction.

I point out that though the APs are among the most widely ratified treaties, the list of States not parties to them is practically a list of countries that have been involved in major armed conflicts over the last 30 years.

The modelling, conducted by ANU economist Warwick McKibbin (who has been very critical of the Kyoto Protocol) concluded that the economic cost of the Kyoto Protocol will be higher if Australia does not ratify the treaty than if it does.

Yesterday in Prime Ministers» Questions, Gordon Brown announced that the government would support a referendum to ratify a treaty which had constitutional implications for the UK but that the Lisbon Treaty did not meet this test.

That «binds» only the US president, since Congress never ratified the treaty.

«Parliament has a long history of ratifying treaties.

After hard negotiations, emission reduction targets for rich countries were agreed and would become legally binding for those nations that honoured their commitments by ratifying the treaty, once it entered into force.

But 65 nations will have to ratify the treaty before it comes into force.

Jonathan Pershing, the US Special Envoy for Climate Change, indicated last week that he expected about 30 countries to ratify the treaty on Wednesday, which would push it over the 55 country threshold needed to come into force.

There must be hundreds of signed - but - not - ratified treaties in the world, and the US certainly has more than the one you cite.

But not enough nations have ratified the treaty for it to come into force.

That same year, Congress, again at Jefferson's request, ratified a treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians.

Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, which provides that only Congress can declare war, has been violated wholesale, and the provision that only the Senate can ratify treaties has been made all but meaningless by dozens of secret «contingency agreements» with the dictators of Spain, Thailand, Ethiopia, Brazil, Bolivia, etc., without the Senate's concurrence.

All countries capable of reaching these bodies have signed and ratified the treaty.

No country is or will be forced to ratify a treaty.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

The Senate has not ratified the treaty and will not do so.

The legislature then gets the chance to ratify the treaty (say «We agree») or not (say «That's crazy talk!

He said the committee was moving toward the completion of the preparatory work, adding that Nigeria had ratified the treaty and signed the financing agreement.

Speaking further, Imohe who is the President, second Conference of State Parties (CSP2) of ATT coming up in August this year in Geneva, Switzerland, urged African countries to ratify the treaty.