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

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

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

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

(a) The instrument is voluntary and non legally binding

Some point out, however, that deforestation and forest degradation continue to occur and that an effective legally binding agreement will improve international governance of forests.

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 ?

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

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

His delegation had in the past called for the establishment of a legally binding agreement in that area which could take the form of an annex to NPT.

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

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, for example, the statements should take the form of a negotiated and legally binding international agreement which should be annexed to the Treaty.

Some note that it is difficult to establish a direct link between the international arrangement and forest policy development, and suggest that a legally binding agreement would be more effective.

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.

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.

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.

They reiterate the agreement at the 2000 Review Conference that legally binding security assurances by the five nuclear weapon States to the non nuclear weapon States strengthen the nuclear non proliferation regime.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

The international community has developed a series of both legally binding and voluntary tools dealing with fisheries and oceans management.

The commitments under the Paris Declaration were not legally binding, and therefore depended on the political will of the signatories.

3. Appeals to all States, especially the nuclear weapon States, to work actively towards an early agreement on a common approach and, in particular, on a common formula that could be included in an international instrument of a legally binding character

The reports point out that a legal instrument and a non legally binding approach would be very similar in terms of objectives, goals and principal targets and also note that a legally binding instrument would strengthen the political commitment to sustainable forest management and give forest issues high political visibility.

Although not legally binding, enough members of parliament have said they will abide by the vote's outcome to make it decisive.

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