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.

(d) Diplomatic assurances are not legally binding.

Lesotho therefore regrets the inability on the part of the Open ended Working Group on small arms to adopt a legally binding document.

However, this practice would not be legally binding.

Of course, developing confidence building measures in space is no replacement for work on a legally binding document to prevent weapons deployment in space.

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.

First, international precedent tells us that nuclear fuel delivery contracts are unreliable, and no legally binding international document or instrument exists to guarantee the delivery of nuclear fuel.

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

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

We expect that the document to be produced at its third session will be legally binding and responsive to the urgent necessity of interrupting the illegal flow of such weapons.

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.

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

(d) Proposed that serious negotiations should be initiated immediately with a view to drafting a legally binding document that offered comprehensive security assurances, which were both balanced and unconditional, to non nuclear weapon States.

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.

But the UN resolution is, unfortunately, not a binding document.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We believe that non nuclear weapon states also deserve legally binding assurances against the threat or use of nuclear weapons.