It is noted that coordination and cooperation would be strengthened if there were a legally binding agreement on forests.

(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

The Declaration is in no way legally binding on China.

23. The Russian Federation and Latvia have agreed to negotiate a legally binding agreement providing for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Latvia.

Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

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

We wish, however, to emphasize that we place a great premium on the procedure for transforming any agreement into a legally binding instrument.

62 98. Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

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

international community does not have the time to negotiate and bring to fruition a LBI.

As to naturalization principles this resolution is not legally binding on the current Latvian Saeima.

Limitations and related measures should have a legally binding character.

They ... called on the Conference on Disarmament to reach an urgent agreement on an international legally binding convention. (A 49 287, para. 54)

We support the creation of a legally binding instrument that would apply to all activities and facilities relevant to the Convention.

Thus, there was no binding agreement not to arbitrate.

(j) A legally binding instrument such as a framework convention, with provisions for subsequent protocols

In order to ensure the effectiveness of such a regime, it must be established through a legally binding instrument.

To this end, we favour the negotiation of common security assurances as the basis for a legally binding international instrument.

The European Union as a whole supports the idea of a legally binding instrument that also includes small arms and light weapons ammunition.

The text was not binding in law, but it acted as a code that was a commitment for all the country apos s economic and social forces.

In its restricted sense, the term quot agreement quot means an agreement intended to have an obligatory character. In this context, attention is drawn to the legal opinion provided by the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in response to the request by the Committee for legal advice on the options for appropriate arrangements which might be entered into between the COP and the GEF (A AC.237 74).

(i) A non legally binding instrument such as an enriched and stronger version of the current international arrangement on forests

Option 2 A non legally binding instrument (NLBI) such as an enriched and stronger version of the current International Arrangement on Forest

(d) Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances.

The Convention is the first international and legally binding instrument deriving from the Rio Conference that links environment and development.

A new legally binding instrument on marking and tracing will greatly facilitate the eradication of small arms and light weapons.

New Zealand was pleased with the substantial progress made by the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks. The decision to work towards a legally binding agreement was welcome.

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

Throughout this process, Norway's priority has been to contribute to the elaboration of an effective, legally binding instrument in the form of a convention on human cloning.

The Trafficking in Persons Protocol constitutes the first legally binding global instrument with an agreed definition of the term trafficking in persons .

We strongly support the efforts under way to strengthen the biological and toxin weapons Convention through the addition to its provisions, of a legally binding verification regime.

We therefore urge distant water fishing nations to come to grips with the need to complete, as soon as practicable, negotiations on a legally binding agreement on proper conservation and management and sustainable utilization of high seas fisheries resources.

The Conference on Disarmament should establish a subsidiary body as soon as possible to draft a legally binding instrument on negative security assurances.

The second lesson from Copenhagen is that to get a binding international agreement, there first must be a deal between the United States and China.

The absence of a binding agreement could mean a global hangover, and not just for a day.

Without providing adequate and universally acceptable solutions to this situation, any proposal contemplating a new legally binding instrument on forests is unnecessary.

An international debt framework (IDF), representing a middle ground between a legally binding insolvency procedure and a voluntary code of conduct, was proposed as an alternative means to address the problem.

Regrettably, it proved impossible to arrive at a consensus with regard to the adoption of a legally binding text, essentially because of the opposition of the United States Government.

Bulgaria participated actively in the elaboration of an international, legally binding instrument based on fundamental principles for the regulation and management of safety and for the operation of nuclear installations.

Since a legally binding international instrument had never been ratified, existing arsenals continued to pose a threat to mankind.

Japan welcomes the agreement reached at the conference to establish an ad hoc group to ensure compliance with the biological weapons convention and to prepare for the formulation of a legally binding instrument.

3. Appeals to all States, especially the nuclear weapon States, to work actively towards an early agreement on a common approach and, in particular, on a common formula that could be included in an international instrument of a legally binding character

It also supported the negotiation of a universal and legally binding instrument that provided security guarantees of non use of nuclear weapons against non nuclear weapon States.

That can be achieved if our efforts lead to an instrument which has a legally binding and comprehensive nature covering all kinds of such weapons, including their ammunition.

(c) Notes that a legally binding international instrument to reinforce the existing arrangements regarding the status and safety of United Nations personnel is being considered by the Sixth Committee