The multilateral character of the agreement undoubtedly contributed to the maintenance of this convention ).

The Vienna Convention provides the following rules on the interpretation of treaties, both bilateral and multilateral

The multilateral environment agreements, including the Ramsar Convention, are important elements in international cooperation in developing and protecting water resources.

In some cases, however, such as the Red Cross Convention, the multilateral convention is especially designed to deal with the relations of Powers at war, and clearly such a convention would continue in force and not be suspended.

8. Urges the international community to take effective measures for the implementation of the Convention through bilateral and multilateral cooperation programmes

Multilateral agreements are agreements signed by several countries (Convention A P 1 792 concerning mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (ECOWAS).

What synergy within the Convention and other multilateral environmental agreements might be pursued to enhance the work on technologies for adaptation?

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides the following rules on the interpretation of treaties, both bilateral and multilateral

Noting that the Convention has served as a model for subsequent multilateral and bilateral treaties and other international legislative texts on arbitration,

For decades, important treaties and conventions, such as the NPT, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons have constituted the international legal framework of multilateral arms control, disarmament and non proliferation.

(b) To intensify bilateral and multilateral cooperation, including technical cooperation, in the areas to be covered by the Convention and the protocols thereto

Promotion of synergies between the Rio conventions and other relevant multilateral environmental agreements and support to the development of multilateral initiatives and collaboration for the Convention implementation have been among the focus areas of the secretariat since COP 6.

Cuba is prepared to launch immediate negotiations on a multilateral convention which applies this approach and believes that the Conference on Disarmament, as the sole multilateral negotiating forum in the area of disarmament, is the proper framework for such an undertaking.

One representative underlined the point that, as the objectives of multilateral environmental agreements varied, a separate risk evaluation should be required under the Convention.

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is an extremely important instrument for ensuring effective multilateral cooperation on the high seas.

The Study Group held a separate discussion, on the basis of a paper by one of its members, of the so called disconnection clause that had been inserted in many multilateral conventions, according to which in their relations inter se certain of the parties to the multilateral convention would not apply the rules of the convention but specific rules agreed among themselves.

States Parties shall consider concluding bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements to enhance the effectiveness of international cooperation undertaken pursuant to this chapter of the Convention.

Multilateral agreements China signed in November 2000 the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (hereunder referred to as the Hague Convention) and is at present engaged in the process of its ratification.

In the First Committee, the overwhelming majority of speakers supported the strengthening of existing multilateral agreements the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention and their universalization.

It was further suggested that an assessment of the criteria required in other multilateral environmental agreements should be made to determine their applicability under the Rotterdam Convention.

Actively promote adherence to the Convention in all relevant multilateral fora, including the UN Security Council, UN General Assembly, assemblies of regional organizations and relevant disarmament bodies.

intended to deal with the technical implementation of the provisions of the multilateral convention or are more favourable than those of the regime from which it departs.

Fifty four survey questionnaires were sent to non Annex I Parties, Parties included in Annex II to the Convention (Annex II Parties) and multilateral and bilateral agencies.

During the meeting, the Parties also discussed the possibility of using the Multilateral Fund to address developing country needs under the Rotterdam Convention and the precedent of the non compliance regime under the Protocol as a potential model for that Convention.

UNEP WCMC also provides assessment support to the multilateral environmental agreements, including work on the Global Biodiversity Outlook of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the CITES periodic trade analysisand the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) species assessment compilation.

This difficulty also exists in regard to multilateral treaties and conventions, but it is much less serious, as it is usually fairly obvious on the face of the multilateral treaty or convention concerned what the effect of the outbreak of war will have been on it.

Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention through continued multilateral and national efforts to improve its verification and implementation, and encourage all States parties to submit information on confidence building measures as required by the review conference of the parties to the Convention

Canada also welcomed the progress made on the Convention Plus initiative, and wished to thank UNHCR for its invaluable assistance in developing a multilateral framework of understandings on resettlement.

The African Group had advocated multilateral negotiations on a convention prohibiting the development, testing, deployment, stockpiling, transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons and calling for their total elimination.

(viii) Promotion of legal instruments promote implementation, enforcement of and compliance with environmental laws, including multilateral environmental agreements, taking into consideration poverty reduction, such as the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the multilateral environmental agreements of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (5)

(b) Pledge full compliance with all articles of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and the Chemical Weapons Convention in order to further strengthen the multilateral framework for non proliferation and disarmament, and in particular

Following the usual procedure for consideration of multilateral treaties, the UN Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism Financing was approved by the Lower Chamber of the National Congress on February 2005.

(vii) Multilateral cooperation

Multilateral development institutions

Multilateral trading system

Multilateral trading system

(b) Multilateral agencies

7. Invites developed countries parties to the Convention and other Governments, multilateral organizations, the private sector and other relevant organizations to make resources available to affected developing countries for the implementation of the ten year strategic plan and framework to enhance the implementation of the Convention

China s Multilateral Financial Mobilization

A Multilateral trading system

Multilateral law making treaties

Multilateral law making conventions

She assumed that costs would not be prohibitively high, given the achievements that had already been made by other multilateral environmental agreements, which could be used to the benefit of the Rotterdam Convention.

See also FCCC SBI 2005 INF.7 containing details of the experience of international funds and multilateral financial institutions relevant to the investment needs of developing countries in meeting their commitments under the Convention.

a) Describe the constitutional, legislative, judicial and administrative framework governing the implementation of the Convention, and any bilateral, regional or multilateral agreements in the field of migration entered into by the reporting State party.