(e) Third State means any State other than the predecessor State or the successor State

Withdrawal of the nationality of the predecessor State

(d) State concerned means the predecessor State or the successor State, as the case may be

(b) Are not covered by subparagraph (a) and have an appropriate legal connection with a constituent unit of the predecessor State that has remained part of the predecessor State

According to the rules of general international law concerning the succession of States, the proportion of the debt of a predecessor State that passes to a successor State is an equitable proportion of that debt that existed to the charge of the predecessor State at the date on which the succession of States between the predecessor State and the successor State took place.

Attribution of the nationality of the successor State and withdrawal of the nationality of the predecessor State

(b) Predecessor State means the State which has been replaced by another State on the occurrence of a succession of States

(c) Have their habitual residence in a third State, and were born in or, before leaving the predecessor State, had their last habitual residence in what has remained part of the territory of the predecessor State or have any other appropriate connection with that State.

Army commander Ashfaq Kiyani has shown no interest in taking over the state, as his predecessor, General Pervez Musharraf, did.

1. A predecessor State may provide that persons concerned who, in relation to the succession of States, voluntarily acquire the nationality of a successor State shall lose its nationality.

(i) Persons concerned not covered by subparagraph (a) having an appropriate legal connection with a constituent unit of the predecessor State that has become part of that successor State

When part or parts of the territory of a State separate from that State and form one or more successor States while the predecessor State continues to exist, a successor State shall, unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, attribute its nationality to

1. The predecessor State shall withdraw its nationality from persons concerned qualified to acquire the nationality of the successor State in accordance with article 24. It shall not, however, withdraw its nationality before such persons acquire the nationality of the successor State.

The car is 7.5 lighter than its predecessor.

(g) Date of the succession of States means the date upon which the successor State replaced the predecessor State in the responsibility for the international relations of the territory to which the succession of States relates.

I pay a warm tribute to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Jean Ping, Minister of State and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie of the Gabonese Republic.

When a State dissolves and ceases to exist and the various parts of the territory of the predecessor State form two or more successor States, each successor State shall, unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, attribute its nationality to

2. Unless otherwise indicated by the exercise of a right of option, the predecessor State shall not, however, withdraw its nationality from persons referred to in paragraph 1 who

In the case of those States which are likely to disappear for environmental reasons, there would appear to be no successor State on whom obligations can be imposed and eventually the predecessor State will no longer be in existence.

Its predecessor was the Alliance for Chile ( Alianza por Chile ).

Chavez's political heir, Nicolás Maduro, has continued using Twitter along the same lines as his predecessor, opening his own profile, NicolasMaduro, once he became Venezuela s official head of state.

2. A successor State may provide that persons concerned who, in relation to the succession of States, voluntarily acquire the nationality of another successor State or, as the case may be, retain the nationality of the predecessor State shall lose its nationality acquired in relation to such succession.

(f) Person concerned means every individual who, on the date of the succession of States, had the nationality of the predecessor State and whose nationality may be affected by such succession

Persons concerned shall not be arbitrarily deprived of the nationality of the predecessor State, or arbitrarily denied the right to acquire the nationality of the successor State or any right of option, to which they are entitled in relation to the succession of States.

1. A State is entitled to exercise diplomatic protection in respect of a corporation that was a national of that State, or its predecessor State, continuously from the date of injury to the date of the official presentation of the claim. Continuity is presumed if that nationality existed at both these dates.

Granting of the right of option by the predecessor and the successor States

Merkel s predecessor, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Gerhard Schröder, knew this well.

Livingston graduated from King's College, the predecessor to today's Columbia University, in 1764.

States concerned shall take all appropriate measures to prevent persons who, on the date of the succession of States, had the nationality of the predecessor State from becoming stateless as a result of such succession.

Kan became finance minister after his predecessor Hirohisa Fujii suddenly resigned, citing ill health.

But this objective was also unattainable under President Mohammad Khatami, Ahmadinejad s reform minded predecessor.

His predecessor Narmer had united Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom.

Its predecessor was established in 1968, when the Emirates were still under British rule.

Will Pope Benedict XVI achieve the breakthrough that his friend and predecessor failed to realize?

A man of peace, Obama has become no less a war president than his predecessor.

This is due to the factors mentioned by my predecessor in the May 2005 report.

On assuming office, the President thanked his predecessor for the work undertaken under his leadership.

MANILA Unlike his predecessor, US President Barack Obama is popular from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray.

Whatever his personal beliefs, if Peña Nieto wins, he will be the PRI s first ever democratically elected president the first to become head of state because he won more votes at the polls, not because his predecessor hand picked him.

President Lech Kaczynski s approval ratings, are dramatically lower than those of his predecessor, the SLD s Aleksander Kwasniewski.

Her predecessor, Ehud Olmert, inundated by corruption charges and set to resign, is hardly her best asset.

The Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present day Republic of South Africa.

I also wish to congratulate your predecessor, who guided our work admirably during the fifty ninth session.

He did not, happily, follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, and tell us to just go shopping.