Port State Jurisdiction Beyond Oceans Governance: The Closure of Ports to Qatar in the 2017 ‘Gulf Crisis’ 5 June 2017 witnessed numerous states severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, including Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia (see also part 2, part 3) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). These were later joined by …
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40th Anniversary of the Additional Protocols of 1977 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 On 8 June 1977, at the invitation of Switzerland, plenipotentiaries of more than one hundred States gathered at the “Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts” to finalize …
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States Are Failing Us in Syria — Not International Law by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Last month, Just Security published a long and thoughtful post by Rebecca Ingber with the provocative title “International Law is Failing Us in Syria.” The international law she is talking about is the …
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North Korea and the Law on Anticipatory Self-Defense Media reports over the last few weeks indicate that the already tense relationship between North Korea and the United States is getting worse. Now that North Korea is nearly ready to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, the United States has said that …
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Trump and the UN by Kristen Boon Like most policy issues in his campaign, Trump’s references to the UN and multilateralism have been brief. If one searches for Trump & the UN, the main hit are statements made in 2005 that he could do a much better job renovating the …
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02 de abril, 2015 — El Secretario General de la ONU felicitó a la República Islámica de Irán y a las potencias mundiales que conforman el grupo E3+3 por alcanzar un entendimiento sobre el programa nuclear de ese país. El anuncio fue hecho hoy en Lausana, Suiza, donde tuvieron lugar …
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U.S. Says Iran’s Pick for U.N. Envoy Won’t Get a Visa WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday said it would bar an Iranian diplomat nominated as United Nations ambassador from entering the country, in a rebuke to Iran at a time when the United States is engaged in delicate …
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Iran’s (Non-)Compliance with its Non-Proliferation Obligations Revisited A recent statement issued by the EU entitled ‘Common messages regarding EU sanctions against the Iranian nuclear programme’, posted on the websites of various EU embassies in Tehran (and translated into Farsi), attempts to sum up the reasons which have allegedly justified not …
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PREAMBULO Resueltas a proseguir sus esfuerzos en la lucha contra la toxicomanía y el tráfico ilícito de estupefacientes y convencidas de que sólo una estrecha cooperación entre todos los Estados puede hacer que esos esfuerzos alcancen su objetivo. Teniendo presente que mediante una serie de instrumentos internacionales se ha tratado …
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COMUNICADO CONJUNTO SOBRE LA REUNIÓN DE LOS CANCILLERES DE LA REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA Y DE LA REPÚBLICA ISLÁMICA DE IRÁN Los Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores, Héctor Timerman y Ali Akbar Salehi, acompañados por el Vicecanciller argentino, Eduardo Zuain, y el Director General iranì para Asuntos Americanos, Reza Zabib, se reunieron en …
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Award of Compensation by International Tribunals in Inter-State Cases: ICJ Decision in the Diallo Case This week, the International Court of Justice decided that the Democratic Republic of Congo is obliged to pay $95,000 to the Republic of Guinea for material and non-material injury arising out of the DRC’s violations …
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Brics busca romper la hegemonía europea y estadounidense en el Banco Mundial, FMI y ONU Los líderes del BRICS, que conforman las potencias emergentes Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica reclamaron al concluir la cumbre celebrada en Nueva Delhi que se termine con la hegemonía europea y estadounidense en el …
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