"There is nothing binding in the Rome Statute on non-signatories to apprehend someone against whom there is an arrest warrant.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that President Barak Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding treaty agreed to by 37 countries in 1997.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

Kyoto expires in 2012. But many say a political framework is more likely at Copenhagen, with a binding accord to be worked out possibly next year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

But now executive secretary of the U.N.Framework Convention on Climate Change Yvo de Boer says any decision taken next month in Copenhagen will instead be "morally binding."

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

And a legally binding deal may take another year to put in place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The comments followed an overwhelming vote in the U.N.General Assembly on a non-binding resolution condemning the 47-year-old U.S.trade embargo against Cuba and urging Washington to lift the restrictions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

General Assembly to plead his case. In a non-binding resolution, the General Assembly demanded that he be returned to office, saying he is the legitimate constitutional leader of Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The first phase of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012 and the current talks are aimed at setting in place new legally binding emissions targets for the decade to come.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Delegates have been in Barcelona all week to hash out a plan that would pave the way for 192 nations to sign a legally binding international climate deal next month.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06