When the Senate consents to a treaty with a given foreign State, does it impliedly authorize future Presidents to make a treaty on the same subject with a new State that is a successor to that given foreign State?
After exhaustive study, the Bush administration concluded that, while the BWC annex is intended to make that treaty prohibiting the production, possession, and use of biological and toxin weapons more verifiable and enforceable, it won't do either.
What is certain, however, is that -- having telegraphed its willingness in principle to do so -- the United States will be hard pressed to resist demands that will make the treaty even more unacceptable to the Senate than it is at present.
She told our colleague, Madeleine Brand, that first NATO and then the U.N. will have to provide peacekeeping to make this new treaty work.
Perhaps it is easier for lawmakers to rely on that list of high-profile endorsements than it is to grapple with the very real pitfalls buried in the hundreds of articles and nine annexes that make up this treaty.
Mr. Gore, like Mr. Clinton, favors negotiating with the Russians to change the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and make way for the more limited missile defense system.
By giving us new tools for verification, enabling us to tap a global network for intelligence and information, and strengthening our own law enforcement, the treaty will make it easier for us to prevent to punish those who seek to violate its rules.
Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier was questioned by MEPs on 15 February 2012 on why the Commission had not signed up to an international treaty to make it legal for blind and visually impaired people to make braille or large-print copies of published books.
The pro-Lisbon crowd in Brussels will tell you that America fears Lisbon as the treaty that will make Europe a more formidable negotiating partner.
It is hard to imagine, moreover, that the three Senators who are expected to be seated in time for the lame-duck session will be in a position to make informed decisions about this treaty.
Senators are on notice that New START establishes a Bilateral Consultative Commission (BCC) that can, and surely will, make deals that affect the treaty's terms in material ways - and do so without the Senate's advice or consent.
The mere fact that the IRS has served a John Doe summons, made a treaty request or has taken similar action does not make every member of the John Doe class or group identified in the treaty request, or other action ineligible to participate.
U.S. officials have envisaged that North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies would make up a large part of the residual force after 2014.
The treaty does little to make the European Union any simpler or more transparent, two supposed goals when the negotiations began eight long years ago.
Members from the parliament's social democrat, liberal, Green and far-left groups lined up to make clear their opposition to the treaty, pledging to vote against it on Wednesday.
Past experience suggests, however, that the very fact that we are party to a treaty regime may actually make it less likely that we will detect and seek redress of violations.
"The international community can claim full ownership of this treaty, which will make trade in conventional arms more responsible and transparent, thus reducing human suffering and tangibly contributing to international peace, security and stability, " Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said in a written statement.
One would effect an extraordinary make-over of the ABM Treaty, from the bilateral accord signed with the USSR -- a country that ceased to exist nine years ago -- into a multilateral accord between Russia, Ukraine and Belarus on the one hand and the United States on the other.
The treaty was originally designed to make it easier to bring terrorist suspects to justice but campaigners say it is being used to seek extradition for other offences such as fraud and drug trafficking.
President Obama's claims that the New START Treaty will enhance American security and make the planet safer do not stand up to scrutiny.
The Dutch presidency's draft treaty had proposed letting the EC make laws by majority vote in new areas such as working conditions and worker consultation.
One small firm, Sensaris, which makes wireless sensors to detect air pollution, has decided to make a filing under the international Patent Cooperation Treaty, which is a way of putting down a marker without the expense of a full patent application.
Presumably they've checked with the lawyers to make sure that this does not violate the Maastricht Treaty, which forbids governments from using the central bank to finance any of their deficits.
An insight into the Clinton-Gore Administration's actual attitude towards defending the United States against missile attack may be found in its motivation for seeking this change: Creating multiple foreign vetoes would make it even more difficult to modify the ABM treaty so as to permit U.S. missile defenses to be deployed.
They believe that such problems could make the result of this Convention worse than having no treaty at all.
So critics of this agreement, like Congressman Delahunt, believe that White House and Pentagon lawyers will carefully construct the language of the agreement to make it appear as if it's not a treaty.
Germany has been less staunch, worrying more than the others that Iran may make good on its threat to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
That initiative would open the Treaty to additional signatories, a step calculated to make it more difficult to change its terms in the future.
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