Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966, entry into force 23 March 1976, in accordance with Article 9 The States Parties to the present Protocol, Considering that in order further to achieve the purposes of the International Covenant on …
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Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation Done at Montreal on 23 September 1971 The State Parties to this Convention, Considering that unlawful acts of violence which endanger or are likely to endanger the safety of persons at airports serving international …
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THE CONTRACTING PARTIES to the Convention for the prevention of marine pollution from land-based sources, done at Paris on 4 June 1974 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Convention’); RECALLING Article 1 of the Convention, in which the Contracting Parties pledge themselves to take all possible steps to prevent pollution of …
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THE COUNCIL, HAVING REGARD to Article 5 b) of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development of 14 December 1960; HAVING REGARD to the Declaration on the Human Environment adopted in Stockholm in June 1972 and in particular Principles 21, 22, 23 and 24 of that Declaration; …
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THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS PROTOCOL, BEING PARTIES to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, RECOGNIZING that the reasons for which the Convention was elaborated also apply to fixed platforms located on the continental shelf, TAKING ACCOUNT of the provisions of that …
Leer »Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the maritime boundary, 1 June 1990
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (hereinafter “the Parties”), Recalling the United States-Russia Convention of March 18/30, 1867 (hereinafter “the 1867 Convention”), Desiring to resolve issues concerning the maritime boundary between the United States and the Soviet Union, Desiring to ensure that coastal State …
Leer »Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The States Parties to the present Protocol have agreed as follows : Article 1 1. A State Party to the present Protocol (“State Party”) recognizes the competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) to receive and consider communications from or on behalf of individuals …
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The Governments of the Powers hereinafter named, being equally desirous of facilitating, so far as their respective laws permit, the interchange of information for the purpose of the discovery and suppression of offences relating to obscene publications, have resolved to conclude an Agreement for that purpose, and have accordingly appointed …
Leer »Convention Respecting the Free Navigation of the Suez Canal (Constantinople) 1888
Article I: The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.Consequently, the High Contracting Parties agree not in any way to interfere with the free use of the Canal, in time of war as in time of peace.The Canal shall never …
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