That could provide a loophole for mercenaries.

Correct, because the NPT was born with a loophole.

That plugged part of the loophole in the treaty without amending it.

This provision then risks becoming a trap for the unwary or a loophole for the unscrupulous.

That loophole has to be effectively addressed through severe measures in the national legislation of all countries.

The system, Americans have been reminded, has become painfully complex, with many a loophole through which one might try to squeeze.

The other advantage of the change was that it broadened the scope of activity beyond direct combat activity and therefore closed a loophole.

Paulson, the outgoing Treasury Secretary and another Goldman Sachs veteran, left a loophole in his rescue package big enough for a truck to drive through.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers money.

It will actually be EASIER to arrange child marriages in Bangladesh, thanks to this loophole. LeveltheLaw https t.co eZ356srCGE Global Citizen ( GlblCtzn) December 12, 2016

The international community needs to take urgent action to close this loophole since it is a key element in the violation of the arms embargo.

What is missing is a new, 13th convention that closes the loophole that seems to permit governments to decide what constitutes terrorism and what does not.

The ICRC is concerned that it creates an ambiguous loophole through which parties to a conflict could avoid or minimize the scope of the detectability requirement.

We hope that the fact that the outcome document was not definitive on this matter does not provide a loophole for those who choose to have selective amnesia about our long standing commitments.

In the meantime, every drone strike will not only undermine human rights and international humanitarian law, but will also further widen a legal loophole that other governments and armed groups will not hesitate to exploit.

However, hundreds of thousands of East Germans annually immigrated to West Germany through a loophole in the system that existed between East and West Berlin, where the four occupying World War II powers governed movement.

The NPT allows countries the right to develop nuclear energy for purposes such as electricity generation, a loophole that allows governments to build most of what is necessary to produce the fuel for a nuclear weapon.

Chile supports resolution 1540 (2004) because it firmly believes that there is a loophole in the international system governing the non proliferation and control of weapons of mass destruction, in particular their possible terrorist use by non State actors.

But agreement is thinner than it appears. The NPT allows countries the right to develop nuclear energy for purposes such as electricity generation, a loophole that allows governments to build most of what is necessary to produce the fuel for a nuclear weapon.

That loophole is all the more troubling in light of French press reports this week concerning Western intelligence on the construction of facilities in Shiraz that may be used to separate plutonium in order to create the fissile material needed for nuclear weapons.