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

He wished to know whether the National Human Rights Commission had the authority to issue final and binding rulings on violations of constitutional rights or whether its powers were limited to referring matters to the courts.

There was a need for legally binding security assurances to non nuclear weapon States.

In this regard, it is noteworthy that the Conference on Disarmament has long proposed to develop an agreement on that issue this suggests that unilateral declarations are not viewed as legal in nature but rather, as has been mentioned, as political declarations of intent.

The Agency has no police powers, but is legally obliged to collect, analyse and disseminate intelligence on various categories of organized criminal activity.

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.

It was unclear whether member States of REIOs would be bound by some but not all of the provisions of the draft convention.

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.

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

At the same time, US officials deny that their country s missile defense programs are directed against Russia or China, but refuse to offer a legally binding guarantee.

But the talks failed to deliver a comprehensive, legally binding agreement, causing investors to lose confidence in a low carbon economy and delaying progress by several years.

If legally binding security assurances were given by the five nuclear weapon States to non nuclear weapon States, it would avoid unnecessary insecurity.

Lastly, while recognizing that nuclear non proliferation and disarmament required the negotiation and adoption of legally binding multinational instruments, Switzerland did not with to exclude other, complementary initiatives.

The Convention and the Platform for Action comprise, respectively, legally binding obligations and policy commitments towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the realization of equality of women and men.

(d) The formalizing of existing informal bilateral arrangements regarding non strategic nuclear reductions, such as the Bush Gorbachev declarations of 1991, into legally binding agreements

(c) Develop legally binding international instruments to regulate the marking, tracing and illicit brokering of small arms and light weapons and ensure the effective monitoring and enforcement of United Nations arms embargoes

Option 4 A legally binding instrument such as a Stand alone Convention, open to participation by all or a large number of states that impose binding commitments accountability and may involve pre agreed sanctions

Cantons, in accordance with the constitutional arrangements and the quoted federal law, are obligated to pass their cantonal as executive provisions for the protection of families with children and provide resources for their implementation.

We are also proposing that an international convention be adopted to establish liability and compensation for both economic losses and ecological damage caused by offshore oil and gas exploration and production, which should also always be subject to legally binding safety protocols.

18. Calls upon the nuclear weapon States to respect fully their existing commitments with regard to security assurances pending the conclusion of multilaterally negotiated legally binding security assurances for all non nuclear weapon States parties

But to make a real difference, Member States should expedite and conclude negotiations on legally binding agreements on the marking and tracing of small arms and light weapons, as well as their brokering and transfer.

That legal framework should be complemented by agreed criteria on the legitimacy of military force, which we understand not to be legally binding, as a means of enhancing the Security Council's accountability to Member States in its decision making on those topics.

They reiterate the agreement at the 2000 Review Conference that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime.

Further, the Party in question was apparently treating certain provisions of decisions IX 6 and Ex.I 3 as merely hortatory rather than binding.

Statutory request.

The first global and legally binding convention against corruption, adopted by the General Assembly in October 2003, has been signed so far by 118 countries and ratified by 15.

We are convinced that legally binding security assurances provided by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States would strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime, and advocate the commencement of negotiations to this end.

Some delegations were of the view that the document on space debris mitigation to be developed by the Subcommittee should be technically consistent with the goals and substance of the IADC guidelines, should remain voluntary and should not be legally binding under international law.

(b) Non binding recommendations

c) Other reasons prescribed by the law.

El Salvador declared, with regard to article 9, paragraph 2, that only in the event of the revision of criminal judgements shall the State, in keeping with its domestic legislation, by law compensate the victims of judicial errors that have been duly proved.

is bound by treaties entered into by China.

He would welcome information on the actual levels of deportation in recent years, the locations to which deportees had been sent and the extent to which people not yet legally admitted to Mauritian territory benefited from the provisions of the deportation laws.

(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

legally broke their contract with Ivan Shapovalov and Neformat.

The Declaration is in no way legally binding on China.

Mozambique still does not have a Family Law.

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

She noted the Minister's comment that the Convention and the Irish Constitution were at variance on some points and that a specific bill incorporating provisions of the Convention had ultimately been struck down, as a result of the country's common law tradition.

However, this practice would not be legally binding.

Although the guarantees given in this case did not refer to Egypt's obligations under the Convention against Torture, this is of no particular consequence since Egypt, like Uzbekistan, is in fact bound by the Convention.

Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

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

In Honduras, the Congress is discussing a law on the protection of older persons and pensioners.

This system clearly lacks any legal basis, as it allows for a total absence of impartiality and abuse of power and is a serious violation of the rights of the individuals subjected to the system, as detentions, sentences or judgements rendered cannot be considered legally binding.