The French Socialist Party may well have just saved ratification of the European Union s draft Constitutional Treaty by France in next summer s referendum. At the beginning of December, party members and supporters voted overwhelmingly in favor of the treaty.

We encounter obstacles such as the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty in two referendums.

Draft article 18 Special treaty provisions

In operative paragraph 15 replace the phrase to develop a draft treaty with the phrase to agree to a draft treaty .

At a European level, the provisions of the draft Constitutional Treaty of the European Union institutionally strengthen equality, which is generally conceived as a value of the Union, while, more specifically, the promotion of gender equality remains one of the Union's aims as has already been established in the Amsterdam Treaty.

If public opinion polls are to be believed, on May 29 the French will reject the European Union s draft constitutional treaty. Because all EU member countries must ratify the constitution, a French Non will, in effect, kill it.

The Constitutional Treaty adopted by the European Union provided for the establishment of a fully fledged common asylum system.

Indeed, from the start, the architects of the Union's Constitutional Treaty never seriously expected that their draft would endure in the form in which they wrote it. Instead, they saw themselves as following Europe's long established pattern of step by step integration.

The Constitutional Treaty provides solid foundations for our shared future. Peace, security, and prosperity are as vulnerable as they are valuable.

In my country, Argentina, each province can, in accordance with a constitutional mandate, draft its own traffic legislation.

In February 2005, the countries of Central Asia finalized the draft treaty.

Paris The European Union s Lisbon treaty was initially greeted with enthusiasm, pride, and even hubris. It promised a more realistic and reasonable way forward than the ill fated constitutional treaty that it replaced, and many of its supporters also hoped that a central feature of its predecessor the notion of constitutional patriotism was still alive.

We now stand at the threshold of a new phase of European cooperation. In late October, the EU's Constitutional Treaty will be signed.

It is essential to reaffirm the normative essence of the Constitutional Treaty to protect the greatest achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Diversity and inclusiveness, through the integration of European democracies with a common project, remains Europe s great gift to the world.

Meanwhile, the draft treaty and constitution were being circulated around Tokelau for further discussion.

The second unresolved question is how to achieve a banking union in legal terms. Constitutional change on this scale would normally require a new European treaty.

Maybe the time has come to formally introduce such a draft treaty in the CD?

In 2001, Irish voters rejected the Nice Treaty, which threw the EU into a protracted period of crisis and introspection, which ended only with agreement on the so called Constitutional Treaty in 2005. Almost immediately, however, French and Dutch voters rejected that Treaty, bringing the negotiations back to square one.

In October 2004, the Governor signed into law the Fifth Constitutional Convention, which is scheduled to draft a constitution by 27 July 2006.

In addition, he felt it necessary to record in the draft the Chairman's invitation to participate in the special constitutional workshop in Tokelau.

Since the shock of the French and Dutch no votes against the European Union s proposed Constitutional Treaty, events have followed their inevitable course, but more rapidly than expected.

The next step was to put the draft treaty and supporting documents before the New Zealand cabinet.

It has happened. After France and the Netherlands rejected the European Constitutional Treaty, Ireland s No vote is the second and probably decisive blow against a united and strong Europe.

This draft law, elaborated in collaboration with IAEA experts, has been submitted to the competent authorities within the framework of the constitutional process for adoption.

It is no exaggeration to say that a large majority of member states and their citizens has already expressed its wish for this vision of the EU by voting for the Constitutional Treaty. At a meeting convened by Spain and Luxembourg in Madrid in January to which all the yes countries were invited, this view was also supported by four other member states that are committed to the constitutional treaty.

As a consequence, the author claims that he does not enjoy the same special legal and constitutional status as all other Aboriginal peoples of Canada enjoying Aboriginal or treaty rights.

It is important that all recognize that the facilitation work of the United Nations, including the publication of the draft constitutional text, does not constitute advocacy.

We believe, though, that the increased use of qualified majority voting by member governments embodied in the new treaty should also be applied to the ratification process itself. That way, if a small minority of EU governments prove unable to ratify the treaty, it would not be torpedoed the way that its predecessor, the Constitutional Treaty, was in 2005.

These concerns remain acute, even in the aftermath of the decision by the Czech Constitutional Court on November 26 that the Lisbon Treaty is compatible with the Czech constitution and can be ratified in the normal way by the Czech Parliament. But the current constellation of Czech political forces is finely balanced between pro Treaty and anti Treaty forces.

The second reason for Bayrou s spectacular rise has less to do with personalities and more with France s national mood. The very reason that led a majority of the French to say no to the referendum on the European Union s draft Constitutional Treaty in May 2005 may lead them to vote for Bayrou, the most pro European of all candidates.

Across the European Union, fears about globalization and antipathy to integration and immigration have produced massive political fallout, including the failed French and Dutch referenda on the Union s draft constitutional treaty and a de facto moratorium on accession talks with Turkey. The European Council and the Commission have watched helplessly, as if the matter was not in their hands.

The solution to the impasse over Europe s Constitutional Treaty certainly does not lie in the direction of diminishing its scope, and thus perhaps making it just an ordinary treaty. Minimalist solutions respond to neither the expectations of the citizens nor the requirements of a rapidly changing world.

Although the draft resolution was very weak and groundless, it was also harmful as it distorted the facts and hindered his Government's ability to defend constitutional order.

This process, which will enable the Iraqi people to make an informed choice on whether to accept or reject the draft constitutional text, is now under way.

Constitutional acts

Constitutional provisions

Consideration of draft final declaration and measures to facilitate the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Some delegations considered the breadth of the term special treaty provisions unclear was there an implied hierarchy such that the principles of the draft articles applied to some treaty provisions but not others?

The importance and urgency of signatures and ratifications, without delay and without conditions and in accordance with constitutional processes, to achieve the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Draft guidelines for streamlined reporting on the basis of an expanded core document and targeted treaty specific reports were prepared in 2004 and commented on by treaty bodies, Member States, NGOs and other stakeholders.

Criminal and constitutional complaints up to the level of the Constitutional Court were unsuccessful.

In addition, we welcome Poland's initiative to submit draft resolution A C.1 60 L.31 in support of the Treaty.

Indeed, such reservations were contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty, which was exactly what draft guideline 3.1.7 said.

Lastly, draft article 11 might trigger controversy over whether the Security Council could order the termination or suspension of treaty obligations.

During the referendum campaign in France preceding the vote on the draft EU Constitutional Treaty, the proposed directive was vilified as undermining the rights of labor, symbolized by that dreaded bogeyman, the Polish plumber. These attacks overlooked the fact that the directive makes employment conditions of workers from other EU member states subject in most respects to host country rules.