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

Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties. Madrid, 13 December 1979

Option 4 Use the Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund Parties could request the Multilateral Fund to serve as the operational entity for a Rotterdam Convention financial mechanism.

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

Further, the Convention provides that States parties shall seek to conclude bilateral and multilateral agreements on extradition.

Parties could request the Multilateral Fund to serve as the operational entity for a Rotterdam Convention financial mechanism.

For its part, Singapore has consistently supported multilateral non proliferation regimes such as the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological Weapons Convention.

Application of cooperation provisions to other multilateral conventions States Parties may apply articles 3 to 12 of this Convention to other multilateral conventions to the extent agreed between States Parties. Dispute settlement

to other multilateral conventions quot States Parties may apply articles 3 to 12 of this Convention to other multilateral conventions to the extent agreed between States Parties. quot Dispute settlement quot l.

The main multilateral treaty referred to was the 1972 European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters.

Additional Protocol to the Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties. Madrid, 13 December 1979

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

Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and 1965 Nationals of Other States World Bank Multilateral Binding Adopted

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

7. States Parties may apply article(s) ____ of this Convention to other multilateral conventions to the extent agreed between States Parties.

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.

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

Furthermore, there was a need to increase bilateral and multilateral arrangements and agreements as called for under article 7 of that Convention.

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.

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

Yet some of the capacity building and institutional strengthening initiatives supported by the Multilateral Fund are similar to those needed under the Rotterdam Convention.

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.

A. Multilateral

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.

This study does not attempt to determine the political feasibility of asking the Multilateral Fund to serve as the financial mechanism for the Rotterdam Convention.

Through its bilateral and multilateral partners, it has continued to facilitate the provision of financial and technical support to Parties for implementation of the Convention.

Cuba is prepared to initiate negotiations immediately on a multilateral convention which would apply this concept and believes that the Conference on Disarmament, as the only multilateral negotiating forum in the area of disarmament, is the appropriate framework for carrying them out.

quot (1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, this Convention does not prevail over any international convention or other multilateral or bilateral agreement which has been or may be entered into by a Contracting State and which contains provisions concerning the matters governed by this Convention.

This Convention prevails over any international convention or other multilateral or bilateral agreement which has been or may be entered into by a Contracting State and which contains provisions concerning the matters governed by this Convention, unless a Contracting State makes a declaration under article 29. quot

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.

An additional question is whether the model represented by the Multilateral Fund_i.e., a stand alone financial mechanism with mandatory additional contributions_would well serve the Rotterdam 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.

139. The call for an international convention was also made by Italy in the Legal Committee of IMO, to which it submitted a proposal for a multilateral convention to combat illegal migration by sea (LEG 76 11 1).

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.

(vii) Multilateral cooperation

Multilateral development institutions

Multilateral trading system

Multilateral trading system

(b) Multilateral agencies