Примеры использования Watercourse agreements на Английском языке и их переводы на Русский язык
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Article 3 Watercourse agreements.
His delegation was satisfied with draft article 4(Parties to watercourse agreements) as it stood.
Future watercourse agreements.
On the second point, namely, what is to become of the vast number of existing watercourse agreements.
Existing watercourse agreements.
The first involved the nature of the framework convention and its relationship to watercourse agreements for specific rivers.
Specific watercourse agreements which could be concluded in the future should override the general convention.
The United States has entered into numerous and long-standing watercourse agreements with its neighbours, Canada and Mexico.
The most difficult was the relationship between the future framework convention and existing watercourse agreements.
Furthermore, existing watercourse agreements might include provisions whose relationship to the draft articles would likewise be unclear.
It had been suggested that a clause expressly safeguarding existing watercourse agreements should be inserted.
If reference was made to watercourse agreements, it might be supposed that only States that had concluded an agreement were obliged to cooperate.
Her delegation wished to avoid all conflict between the norms laid down by the draft andthose embodied in existing or future watercourse agreements.
The present articles shall, prior to their entry into force, have no effect on existing watercourse agreements, except as otherwise expressly agreed by all the parties thereto.
In his view,the Commission should also have included in article 33 some obligation to include dispute settlement provisions in watercourse agreements.
This formulation reflects two aspects of regulation:the first aspect concerns watercourse agreements, and the second concerns the general principles and norms codified in the draft.
Mr. LEGAL(France) said that the scope of the framework convention should be determined by riparian States at the time they concluded watercourse agreements.
Finland has bilateral transboundary watercourse agreements with all of its neighbouring countries, but the agreements cover only surface-water issues.
In the view of the Government of Finland,the question of the relationship between these draft articles and watercourse agreements remains, however, unclear.
It might reasonably be argued that, since future watercourse agreements could depart from the framework convention, the same was true for existing agreements. .
It was also fitting to ask whether the Commission should not have included in article 33 some obligation to include dispute-settlement provisions in watercourse agreements.
As to the question of future watercourse agreements, his delegation agreed that the draft articles preserved the principle of States parties' freedom to conclude such treaties.
Article 3, which allowed States to consult with a view to negotiating watercourse agreements, was quite satisfactory.
This draft can be further elaborated through specific watercourse agreements which take into account the characteristics of each watercourse and the needs of the respective States.
She agreed that article 1 should clarify that the framework convention was not intended to supplant existing orfuture bilateral or multilateral watercourse agreements.
Ms. KALEM(Uganda) said that existing international watercourse agreements in Africa had been negotiated by the former colonial Powers and that some of them were prejudicial to her country.
He agreed with the representative of Argentina that article 1 should specify that the framework convention did not affect existing watercourse agreements.
It might be advisable to clarify the wording of this article so thatit would be clear whether watercourse agreements referred to in this article also apply to already existing agreements. .
Mr. de VILLENEUVE(Netherlands)agreed with the representative of Mexico that international rules should be adopted for negotiations on new international watercourse agreements.