But by then the commission may also be proposing to act against Germany, under the same treaty provision, known to cognoscenti as Article 104 (9).

ECONOMIST: Europe's stability pact meets national sovereignty

Comment: This provision for expulsion of republics from the Union is doubly ironic in view of the fact that the Treaty omits any provision for secession, a right which was nominally recognized from the very beginning of the USSR and "guaranteed" under all previous Soviet constitutions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Comment: Notwithstanding the alleged voluntary nature of the Treaty, this provision makes clear that each republic is being presented with a non-negotiable ultimatum: either continue under the 1922 Treaty, or adopt its substantial equivalent, the Union Treaty.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The treaty similarly makes no provision for stopping and searching on the high seas ships suspected of transporting weapons of mass destruction on behalf of or for use by international terrorists.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Protect US sovereignty: Sink the Law of the Sea

The treaty's most tangible provision for a common citizenship will likely be undermined by Russian cities' registration rules, which make it hard for foreigners to resettle there.

ECONOMIST: Slavic symbolism | The

The point of this complex formula was that the resolution would have referred to a provision in the ICC treaty itself, which allows the Security Council to suspend an investigation by the court.

ECONOMIST: Court quarrel continues | The

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.

ECONOMIST: Carbon capture and storage

President Bush recently described a counterpart provision in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to have been a "loophole" that has been cynically and systematically exploited to undermine the NPT.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Deep-six this treaty

Comment: This provision has the potential to nullify Part I of the Treaty -- which ostensibly recognizes the sovereignty of the republics.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The financial risk might be low the treaty requires the United States to hand over the canal free of debt (a provision that has restricted the scale of investment).

ECONOMIST: Panama

Furthermore, while there is a LOST provision exempting "military activity" from such dispute resolution mechanisms, the Treaty makes no attempt to define "military activity, " virtually guaranteeing that such matters will be litigated - in all likelihood to our detriment - before one or another of LOST's arbitration mechanisms.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: False Flag Operation on L.O.S.T.