First, ending the stalemates on the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The going for a fissile-material cut-off treaty at the log-jammed Conference on Disarmament could be harder still.
He outlined five areas to focus on, including the need for a verifiable and legally binding fissile material cut-off treaty and a possible follow-up meeting in New York to the 2009 Security Council summit hosted by President Obama.
Together with Obama administration officials' calls for Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - which would compel Israel to relinquish its purported nuclear arsenal - and their stated interest in having Israel sign the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty - which would arguably force Israel to allow international inspections of its nuclear facility in Dimona - Obama's planned nuclear conclave will place Israel in an untenable position.
My guess is that my fellow Texans would look around and decide which Ranger to set on these guys, make it clear that this was not the ride we had signed on for, dust off that old treaty and work out an exit strategy.
It claims to support a treaty to cut off the production of fissile material for bombs, knowing full well that negotiations on that treaty have been stuck for years.
At some point, during coffee perhaps, he would pop off and sign the treaty.
Italy was one of the six countries which signed the 1951 Paris Treaty setting Europe off on the path to integration.
And John Holum, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said the Senate should put off any discussion of the treaty's costs until after ratification--a classic sales pitch for a pig in a poke.
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Those elevated levels of radiocarbon were tracked carefully, and they began to drop off quickly after a test ban treaty was signed in 1963.
It was to fend off utter disaster that we needed the Kyoto Treaty, carbon taxes, and Priuses.
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India's antiquated rules add more costs by forcing virtually all large funds to incorporate on the island nation of Mauritius, off the coast of Africa, which has a treaty with India that allows VC funds to take dollars out of India without being taxed on capital gains.
It's likely then that Britain and perhaps other countries that have not yet ratified it would call off those plans, saying there was no longer any treaty to vote on.
When she sits down with her senior aides each morning, they reel off two-minute reports on North Korean famine, the chemical-weapons treaty pending in Congress, the hostage standoff in Peru.
It has brushed off demands from Fernando Lugo, Paraguay's new president, to renegotiate a treaty under which his country sells Brazil electricity.
Biden and for that matter Secretary Perry may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
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Biden -- and for that matter Secretary Perry -- may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
Since becoming PM, Hashimoto has pulled off many more coups, including the successful re-negotiation of the U.S.-Japan defense treaty.
The convention is a groundbreaking treaty adopted in 2011 to guarantee domestic workers the same protections available to other workers, including weekly days off, effective complaints procedures and protection from violence.
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