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

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

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 ?

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 observer for Mexico welcomed the paper and expressed the Government's support for the proposal that the guidelines become legally binding.

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

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.

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

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

For Malaysia, the form and content of the statements made an internationally negotiated and legally binding instrument all the more necessary.

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.

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

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.

There was also a pressing need for a legally binding multilateral instrument on security assurances, called for by both the 1995 and the 2000 Review Conferences.

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

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.

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Recognizing the need for a multilaterally negotiated and legally binding instrument to assure non nuclear weapon States against the threat or use of nuclear weapons,

Report of the Intersessional Open ended Working Group to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance

Existing moratoria on nuclear tests are welcomed signs of restraint, but they can be terminated unilaterally and are no substitutes for a legally binding compact.

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.