Under NATO's treaty, an attack on one member is considered an attack on all.
Meanwhile, those considering CCS plants in poor countries cannot earn UN-backed carbon credits, since the Kyoto protocol, the UN's treaty on climate change, makes no provision for the technology.
ECB's treaty-prescribed duty is not to keep the economy at full steam but to maintain price stability, which it defines as a rate of inflation of no more than 2%.
But he said the possibility of changes to the European Union's treaty had been discussed at the summit - and that could provide an opportunity for Britain to reclaim powers from Brussels.
According to longstanding principles of international law, when one country has a bilateral treaty with another and is then "succeeded" by a different state (as Russia has succeeded to the rights and duties of the Soviet Union under a number of treaties), the bilateral treaty remains in effect only if both states so affirm--the new state and its predecessor's treaty partner.
That's the treaty that's in front of people and that's why people therefore think that's what we should be voting on.
It will supersede the START treaty, which has expired, as well as another existing treaty, Russia-U.S. treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive capabilities.
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In 1897, U.S. Secretary of State John Sherman invoked scholarly works to explain to the Government of Japan why the treaties made by the Kingdom of Hawaii would not survive the U.S. treaty of annexation of the Kingdom's territory, i.e.
European governments have invoked the collective defence clause of Nato's founding treaty for the first time.
Cyprus's tax treaty with Russia makes it a favourite for companies investing in that country.
On Friday the 13th (of June), the news came through: The Irish had rejected the EU's Lisbon Treaty.
One early example is the World Intellectual Property Organisation's copyright treaty of 1996, which strengthened international copyright rules.
Nato ambassadors invoked a mutual defence clause in the organisation's founding treaty for the first time in its history.
EU's Nice treaty last year, would be a very bad start to the unofficial election campaign already under way.
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When addressing the CWC's unverifiability, the treaty's supporters often remark that there is no such thing as "perfect" verification.
It says its impact will be far smaller than that of the 1992 referendum in which the Danes rejected the EU's Maastricht Treaty.
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.
But when the EU's Lisbon Treaty took effect in December 2009 the European Parliament used its new powers under the treaty to prevent that deal being renewed.
EU's reform treaty still before the British parliament for ratification.
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Mr Hague has said he will impose a three-line whip requiring Tories to vote against ratification of the European Union's Amsterdam treaty, which Tony Blair signed last June.
The legal opinion says England, Wales and Northern Ireland would be most likely to inherit the UK's existing treaty obligations and membership of international bodies - while Scotland would have to begin anew.
One complication is that Ireland's voters will also be voting on whether to approve the European Union's Amsterdam Treaty on the same day and there are some fears that the two issues may get confused.
So does Britain's extradition treaty with America.
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With the participation of the United States and Russia for the first time in 2011, the EAS now includes all the major regional powers, including U.S. treaty allies Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, Thailand, and the Philippines, as well as India and China.
Some suggest that, while Israel's peace treaty with Jordan is reasserted, a buffer zone could be drawn up on the eastern side of the Jordan river, perhaps monitored by peacekeepers from NATO or the UN, to protect Israel against an invasion from the east and to enable it to withdraw from the West Bank.
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Because of Gaffney's efforts to bring the treaty's defects to the attention of the Senate, however, LOST has begun to draw scrutiny.
With the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) awaiting action by the U.S. Senate, the treaty's supporters are asserting that the Tokyo subway poison gas attack demonstrates the need for U.S. ratification.
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Reassurances about Japan's joint security treaty with America aside, Mr Hashimoto's hosts want convincing on several other matters.
EU's single market, which embodies the Rome treaty's principles of a free flow of goods, services, labour and capital.
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