Countries that sign these agreements get preferential treatment over all others.

Such preferential treatment obliterates the objectivity and neutrality required from the judicial process.

She nonetheless acknowledged that citizens of the Nordic countries did indeed benefit from preferential treatment.

It would seem that UNESCO also gives preferential treatment to local sourcing as deliberate policy.

Another issue is the notion of preferential treatment for developing countries and, perhaps, economies in transition.

The preferential treatment covers about 75 per cent of bilateral trade turnaround between the two countries.

With ample foreign funding and preferential treatment from the government, the militias have no incentive to disband.

Second, the IMF s heavy involvement in the prolonged euro crisis looked like preferential treatment of Europe and Europeans.

Places like the United Kingdom actively court wealthy foreign nationals through extraordinary preferential treatment of their investment income.

Mauritius illustrated the need for a preferential and differentiated treatment of small island developing States that export commodities.

Consideration of the decline in preferential treatment should not stand in the way of trade liberalization within WTO.

And the preferential treatment received by the ECB on its Greek bonds will discourage other investors from holding sovereign debt.

The preferential treatment secured and the attendant discrimination, which article 26 aims at thwarting, violates the latter party's human rights.

Last but not least, US tax policy hardly encourages private sector savings, especially giving the preferential tax treatment of real estate.

The 1998 OECD report in effect categorizes such treatment as a harmful preferential tax regime harmful tax practice (see para. 52 above).

Options for North South environmental technology transfer on a preferential basis by agreement could include waste water treatment, water conservation and desalinization.

In order to overcome those hindrances, they needed enhanced partnership and coherent and concerted efforts, including favourable and preferential treatment from the international community.

A challenge for developing countries would be to find out what special and preferential treatment they would require as regards the implementation of future commitments.

The 2000 Conference had recognized the need to give preferential treatment to developing countries in all activities designed to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Statutory (preferential) creditors

While he appreciated the historical reasons behind the provision relating to preferential treatment for citizens of Nordic countries, he wondered whether Iceland was considering removing it.

The Chancellor of Justice has the duty to promote gender equality and the principle of equal treatment.

It believes that NPT parties in compliance with the Treaty should receive preferential treatment over non NPT parties in regard to assistance to their peaceful nuclear programs.

Implement the provisions of the Doha ministerial declaration that are relevant to the differential and preferential treatment of small island developing States, particularly those regarding access to external markets.

Violence against women was a flagrant violation of their fundamental political rights and of international humanitarian law, hence women in situations involving armed conflict must be given preferential treatment.

Giving preferential treatment to citizens of neighbouring countries or countries with which there were strong ties was a well known phenomenon in Europe and the rest of the world.

In reporting such practices in his 2000 report on procurement reform, the Secretary General noted that only UNESCO and UNHCR practise some form of preferential treatment in their procurement activities.

Given South Korea s status as one of the world s top five nuclear power producers, Chun argued, the South Korean public would not tolerate the perception that Japan was receiving preferential treatment.

Thanks to good legislation, gender equality policies and preferential treatment, women now had a strong position in society and were contributing vigorously to the social and economic development of the country.

It was mentioned that the WTO allowed for preferential treatment on a regional level, although it might be wondered why a country would want to discriminate against non regional trading partners.

Consequently, trading partners were urged to recognize the special difficulties faced by developing economies during trade reforms and to provide support during the cessation of preferential treatment and guaranteed commodity prices.

Such a tax should start with turning the EU current exclusion of settlements products from preferential customs treatment into a full scale ban on imports from settlements and any transactions with them.

57. Requests the Secretary General ensure that all duty stations are given equal treatment in respect of the application of modern technologies

The potential for South South trade has been growing exponentially and at UNCTAD XI it was agreed that in the context of GSTP negotiations, preferential and differential treatment would be provided to LDCs.

The laws and decrees establishing this preferential treatment include the Foreign Investment Act and its regulations (Law No. 127 of 1992) and Decree No. 4691 and Decree No. 3192 on industrial export processing zones.

Mr. Wieruszewski said that, while article 26 of the Covenant did not prohibit preferential treatment as such, he was concerned that the Committee might find itself in a predicament should a citizen of another nationality lodge a complaint on the grounds of unfair treatment and incompatibility with article 26.

The law on pension support for citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan provides for awarding retirement pensions under preferential conditions and in preferential amounts.

The DOTS strategy is not implemented in all European countries, owing in part to disagreement about whether treatment is a duty or a right.

His stay in an immigration detention centre has been marked by preferential treatment and Government spokespersons were time and again forced to resort to verbal gymnastics to avoid using the word terrorist to describe him.

Expresses appreciation for IDB efforts to accord preferential treatment to companies and contractors from Member States in the implementation of projects financed by the Bank and calls upon IDB to intensify its efforts in this field.

The Elderly can enjoy preferential services, such as check ups and treatment at medical centers and provision of free health insurance for people over 90 years old in accordance with Decree 120 2003 CP of the Government.

She would appreciate an explanation of what was meant by preferential treatment of women by law and policy in the State party's response to question 8, and a description of the content of that law and policy.

INPEC recorded a large number of disciplinary investigations, including offences committed in the line of duty as well as those constituting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

At the Basic Health Unit and the Rural Health Center level, the doctor on duty is competent to provide treatment to all trauma patients including women.

We therefore stress the importance of eliminating all types of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We demand that no exceptions be made to that rule and that no State be given preferential treatment over others.