The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement.

The declaration must stipulate that a legally binding agreement must be finalized by COP15 bis in 2010.

It is noted that coordination and cooperation would be strengthened if there were a legally binding agreement on forests.

(d) Diplomatic assurances are not legally binding.

Above all, they want the US to sign a legally binding agreement affirming that US BMD will never threaten Russia s strategic deterrent.

There is no legally binding multilateral agreement which bans the deployment of weapons other than weapons of mass extermination in outer space.

However, this practice would not be legally binding.

A legal framework could also contain a combination of legally binding and non binding elements.

Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

Stronger regulation means legally binding, globally applicable rules and standards.

The Declaration is in no way legally binding on China.

Some point out, however, that deforestation and forest degradation continue to occur and that an effective legally binding agreement will improve international governance of forests.

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(k) A legally binding instrument such as a stand alone convention.

It is not an institution created to negotiate legally binding instruments.

But the talks failed to deliver a comprehensive, legally binding agreement, causing investors to lose confidence in a low carbon economy and delaying progress by several years.

These steps could take the form of an internationally legally binding instrument.

His delegation had in the past called for the establishment of a legally binding agreement in that area which could take the form of an annex to NPT.

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, for example, the statements should take the form of a negotiated and legally binding international agreement which should be annexed to the Treaty.

Some note that it is difficult to establish a direct link between the international arrangement and forest policy development, and suggest that a legally binding agreement would be more effective.

In the discussion following these presentations, questions were raised with regard to the issue of accountability, as the Millennium Development Goals were not legally binding but were linked to legally binding international human rights instruments.

First, clarity is needed on ambitious, legally binding emission reduction targets for industrialized countries.

The Convention contains clear, legally binding commitments, as well as provisions to ensure compliance.

There was a need for legally binding security assurances to non nuclear weapon States.

Canada supports beginning discussions on codifying negative security assurances on a legally binding basis.

The disarmament process should be carried out within the framework of legally binding instruments.

Although the Programme is not a legally binding document in itself, many of the important issues addressed therein such as the right to health and employment issues are already included in existing, legally binding international instruments.

The EU Council s common position on arms exports is legally binding on all EU states.

(j) A legally binding instrument such as a framework convention, with provisions for subsequent protocols

They reiterate the agreement at the 2000 Review Conference that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime.

We hope that that instrument will be legally binding and that it will cover illicit ammunition.

We also urgently need a multilateral and legally binding treaty banning the production of fissile materials.

Those guidelines and legally binding norms did not need to relate solely to the underlying right.

In the absence of any legally binding instrument on that issue, such cooperation was entirely voluntary.

Russian officials need to retreat from their politically impossible demand for legally binding limitations on US BMD.

Give its views on incorporating sensitive subjects such as reproductive and sexual rights in legally binding instruments.

Although it is a political and not a legally binding declaration, the issue of definitions nonetheless arises.

This would obviously also include the possibility of negotiating an international legally binding instrument on the matter.

We suggested a new, legally binding treaty system of mutual security guarantees to ensure equal security throughout Europe.

EU citizens will be endowed with legally binding fundamental rights, and majority decisions will become the general norm.

Pending legally binding assurances, we call upon the nuclear weapon States to abide by their unilateral security assurances.

In that regard, Cuba considers that the adoption of new legally binding measures on this topic is not justified.

The commitment made in 1995 for further steps on security assurances, including an internationally legally binding instrument, remained unfulfilled.

(d) Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances.