(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

If the legally binding component has failed to ensure the enforcement of these rights in these Covenants, what is the point of having another legally binding right ?

It is not an institution created to negotiate legally binding instruments.

However, this practice would not be legally binding.

A legal framework could also contain a combination of legally binding and non binding elements.

Non legally binding instrument on all types of forests

Thus, we cannot accept it. The Declaration is in no way legally binding on China.

Although the Programme is not a legally binding document in itself, many of the important issues addressed therein such as the right to health and employment issues are already included in existing, legally binding international instruments.

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(k) A legally binding instrument such as a stand alone convention.

Although it is a political and not a legally binding declaration, the issue of definitions nonetheless arises.

These steps could take the form of an internationally legally binding instrument.

The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement.

In the discussion following these presentations, questions were raised with regard to the issue of accountability, as the Millennium Development Goals were not legally binding but were linked to legally binding international human rights instruments.

It is noted that coordination and cooperation would be strengthened if there were a legally binding agreement on forests.

In that regard, Cuba considers that the adoption of new legally binding measures on this topic is not justified.

The Convention contains clear, legally binding commitments, as well as provisions to ensure compliance.

There was a need for legally binding security assurances to non nuclear weapon States.

Canada supports beginning discussions on codifying negative security assurances on a legally binding basis.

The disarmament process should be carried out within the framework of legally binding instruments.

(j) A legally binding instrument such as a framework convention, with provisions for subsequent protocols

As this declaration is a political declaration and is not legally binding, it is important to avoid using words such as shall or undertake .

This is why it has been regarded as important to examine all implications before committing to a new legally binding instrument.

We hope that that instrument will be legally binding and that it will cover illicit ammunition.

We also urgently need a multilateral and legally binding treaty banning the production of fissile materials.

Those guidelines and legally binding norms did not need to relate solely to the underlying right.

In the absence of any legally binding instrument on that issue, such cooperation was entirely voluntary.

The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities is the only international legally binding instrument for the protection of national minorities.

His concern is buttressed by the fact that diplomatic assurances are not legally binding and thus have no sanctions for their violation.

Without providing adequate and universally acceptable solutions to this situation, any proposal contemplating a new legally binding instrument on forests is unnecessary.

There is no legally binding multilateral agreement which bans the deployment of weapons other than weapons of mass extermination in outer space.

Give its views on incorporating sensitive subjects such as reproductive and sexual rights in legally binding instruments.

This would obviously also include the possibility of negotiating an international legally binding instrument on the matter.

Pending legally binding assurances, we call upon the nuclear weapon States to abide by their unilateral security assurances.

Has an assessment been done of the existing legally binding rights to establish reasons for failure or success?

Canada is committed to seeing a successful conclusion of these negotiations and we welcome the High level Panel's recommendation of a legally binding instrument.

Of course, developing confidence building measures in space is no replacement for work on a legally binding document to prevent weapons deployment in space.

France played an active role in negotiating this legally binding instrument, and is working to secure its entry into force as soon as possible.

The commitment made in 1995 for further steps on security assurances, including an internationally legally binding instrument, remained unfulfilled.

(d) Working Group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances.

The United Nations Convention against Corruption is the first and only global legally binding instrument against corruption and it is remarkably innovative and far reaching in its content.

Discussion among States parties on ways and means to strengthen the BWC is also ongoing and the issue of a legally binding protocol is still on the table.

This view is based on the fact that the authors themselves and the addressees have not been unanimous in considering them to be legally binding declarations.

A new legally binding instrument on marking and tracing will greatly facilitate the eradication of small arms and light weapons.

(i) A non legally binding instrument such as an enriched and stronger version of the current international arrangement on forests