All withdrawals from the Treaty were a cause for concern.

I sincerely hope that the Treaty will eventually become universal.

More appropriately, it should be referred to as a fissile material treaty (FMT).

The 1988 Convention was the first international treaty to criminalize money laundering.

If the Commission elected to refer the draft convention to the General Assembly, the place of signature would be United Nations Headquarters in New York.

5.9 The complainant contests the State party's argument that questioning by his counsel in the examination was not restricted.

Levelling New York City perhaps, or sinking the Rock of Gibraltar.

Any Party that withdraws from the Convention shall be considered as also having withdrawn from this Protocol.

The distribution of the ratings was generally less favourable excellent very good (34 per cent), good (27 per cent), satisfactory less than satisfactory (39 per cent).

Parties will consider whether to adopt the compliance procedures and mechanisms as a decision of the COP MOP, or as an amendment to the Protocol.

Financial assistance to these activities would amount in total to some 50,000 in grant payments.

50. The world population, currently estimated at 5.8 billion people, was projected to rise to about 8 billion by 2025, a 33 per cent increase.

The State party's expulsion of the complainant to Spain therefore constituted a violation of article 3 of the Convention.

The assessments of the Parties with respect to the Secretariat's support to national reporting were generally favourable excellent very good (42 per cent) good (35 per cent) satisfactory less than satisfactory (23 per cent).

The State party submits that an argument of inadequate compensation cannot turn those past events into a continuing violation for the purposes of the Covenant.

They should not be confused with ordinary commercial treaties.

The Assembly would also invite States to become parties to the Protocol.

According to estimates, the budget deficit in 1997 would amount to approximately 60 million.

Any Party which withdraws from the Convention shall, pursuant to Article 25 of the Convention , be considered as also having withdrawn from this Protocol.

Each Party to the 1988 Convention is required to adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish as criminal offences certain acts under its domestic law.

States Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be subsequently concluded between them.

States parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

We also continue to work towards universal accession to the NPT and call on those States not yet party to the NPT to join the Treaty as non nuclear weapon States.

The Group believes that legally binding security assurances within the context of the Treaty would provide an essential benefit to the States parties.

Likewise, the draft Convention embodied as an absolute principle the autonomy of the parties, which would be empowered to apply the Convention to their contracts or not, or to derogate from any of its provisions.

agreeing with one or more other persons

As of June 1997, the unemployment rate was some 16.5 per cent, with almost 268,000 persons unemployed.

New Zealand will host six monitoring stations for the Treaty.

It had also translated the Platform for Action and the Convention into local languages.

The Convention will thus constitute a cornerstone in the fight against transnational organized crime.

It also provides that the offences under the Convention shall be considered by States parties as extraditable offences.

For the future, it intended to maintain about 70 different training programmes serving around 4,000 people per year.

The Parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

If the latter State had made a declaration under draft paragraph 1 (c), the convention would not apply because the parties had not agreed that it should.

In contrast, the 22 per cent that rated them as less than satisfactory were mostly the developed countries.

6. If a State Party elects to make the taking of the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article conditional on the existence of a relevant treaty, that State Party shall consider this Convention the necessary and sufficient treaty basis.

The International Convention against the Taking of Hostages (1979) criminalizes the act, and States that have not done so should become party to it, but it does not forbid the payment of ransom.

Belgium stated that extradition was conditional on the existence of a treaty and that it took the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties.

Egypt stated that extradition was conditional on the existence of a treaty and that it took the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties.

The Philippines stated that extradition was conditional on the existence of a treaty and that it took the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties.

Ukraine stated that extradition was conditional on the existence of a treaty and that it took the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties.

In fulfilling this objective, the aim is also to reduce and or contain the costs by realizing all possible potential savings and making the most efficient use of the available resources.

Uzbekistan stated that it regarded the Convention as the legal basis for cooperation on extradition with other States parties to the Convention.

It has now become evident that the possessors of chemical weapons will not be among the original parties to the treaty at the time of the entry into force.

We will continue to strive for a universal membership to the Rome Statute and it is therefore our sincere hope that more States will soon ratify it.