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

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

(d) Diplomatic assurances are not legally binding.

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.

62 98. Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

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

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

One of the major results of the conference was the second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol, the only legally binding international treaty to reduce green house emissions.

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

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.

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

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.

3. Notes that the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty agreed that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States parties to the Treaty strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime

3. Notes that the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty agreed that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States parties to the Treaty strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime

Notes that the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty agreed that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States parties to the Treaty strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime

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

In fact, though we did not get a comprehensive, legally binding treaty that would usher in an era of sustainable, low carbon prosperity, as we had hoped, there were significant achievements in Copenhagen.

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

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.

Basic treaty obligations Under the Kyoto Protocol, developed countries, including economies in transition (collectively known as Annex I countries), accepted legally binding limits to their greenhouse gas emissions for the period of 2008 2012.

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

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

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.

No binding human rights treaty had yet entered into force.

The Netherlands therefore welcomes the Moscow Treaty of 2002 between the United States of America and the Russian Federation, in which reductions of strategic offensive nuclear weapons have been laid down in a legally binding document.

On the basis of the precepts of the 1966 Outer Space Treaty, we believe that it would be appropriate to negotiate a legally binding international instrument which would prohibit any deployment of weapons in outer space.

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.

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

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