Examples of using General multilateral in English and their translations into Russian
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Unity of rules applicable to general multilateral treaties.
In that regard, his delegation believed that general international law encompassed not only rules of customary international law butalso the rules of general multilateral treaties.
Reference was used in a number of general multilateral normative treaties, in fields including human rights.
In its commentary on draft article 16,the Commission concluded after an extensive review of State practice that no exception to"the clean-slate principle applies… to general multilateral treaties and multilateral treaties of a law-making character.
It is rather improbable that a general multilateral treaty could consist of an exchange of letters.
Moreover, the International Court of Justice has recognized that customary law does not necessarily evolveentirely independently of treaties, but can also be expressed in general multilateral conventions or at codification conferences that are widely attended.
Connected with the principle of universality in general multilateral treaties, particularly normative ones, was the question of interpretative declarations.
While stating that a rule of jus cogens"can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character", the Commission has indicated that,at the present time, a modification of a rule of jus cogens would most probably be effected through a general multilateral treaty.
Another topic considered by the Institute concerned the elaboration of general multilateral conventions and of non-contractual instruments.
Given that there was no current general multilateral framework governing crimes against humanity, there might be some benefit in investigating how an"extradite or prosecute" regime in respect of such crimes would operate.
As one member of the Commission pointed out,it is rather improbable that a general multilateral treaty could consist of an exchange of letters.
In the years before the adoption of UNCLOS, a number of general multilateral agreements had been concluded to regulate specific sources of pollution, such as vessel-source pollution, dumping at sea, intervention in cases of maritime casualties and civil liability for vessel-source pollution.
The Swiss Government wishes to thank the International Law Commission for having worked swiftly to complete the preparation of a draft general multilateral convention to establish an international criminal court of a permanent nature.
In the view of his Government, all general multilateral conventions should provide for peaceful third-party dispute settlement procedures.
Turning to the question of the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, he expressed the hope that the draft articles, once completed, would contain a provision that went further than the conventions currently in force andwould provide a general multilateral framework to be added to those conventions.
Rogatory letters, if any, are sent anddealt with in respect to the"general" multilateral European Convention on Legal Assistance, or on Extradition.
One was to draw a distinction between general multilateral treaties and other multilateral treaties; the other was to draw a distinction between treaties which dealt with matters of concern only to a restricted group of States and treaties which dealt with matters of more general concern." Ibid., p. 233.
The view was also expressed that interpretative declarations often provided the only way for States to subscribe to a general multilateral instrument and should be considered in the light of the specific cultures which influenced the legal regimes of nations.
But in the case of a general multilateral treaty or of a treaty concluded between a considerable number of States, this result appears to the Commission not to be as unsatisfactory as allowing State Y, by its objection, to prevent the treaty from coming into force between the reserving State and State X, which has accepted the reservation.
Such declarations were often the only way for States to accede to a general multilateral instrument, by explaining their position on and interpretation of certain of its provisions.
The general and uniform applicability of the legal regime of reservations set out in the Vienna Conventions of 1969 and 1986 is related to the particular characteristics of this regime, which its architects sought to make flexible and adaptable precisely so that it could be applied in all situations. In fact,the system is adapted to the special features of general multilateral law-making treaties, including the requirements of human rights conventions.
However, the question is whether the development of a general multilateral instrument for SEA would constitute action that"may be required for the achievement of the purposes of this Convention" art. 10, para. 2g.
The Government of the Hungarian People 's Republic declares that paragraph 1 of article 26 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and paragraph 1 of article 48 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights according to which certain States may not become signatories to the said Covenants are of a discriminatory nature andare contrary to the basic principle of international law that all States are entitled to become signatories to general multilateral treaties.
It was doubtful whether anything like a collective position of the States parties to general multilateral treaties could be said to exist, especially as the draft guideline did not establish the time by which such a position had to be established.
The reference to intention has two advantages. First, it allows the flexible system to extend to treaties which, although ratified by only asmall number of States, are otherwise more akin to general multilateral treaties. Second, it excludes treaties that have been ratified by a more significant number of States, but whose very nature requires that the integrity of the treaty be preserved.
Against this background, it can be concluded that the development of a general multilateral instrument for SEA in the context of the Espoo Convention would constitute action that"may be required for the achievement of the purposes of this Convention" see art.11.
A view was expressed to the effect that interpretative declarations were often the only way for States to accede to a general multilateral instrument and therefore they should be considered in the light of the specificities of different cultures which influenced the legal regimes of nations.
It was, however, doubtful whether anything like a collective position of the States parties to general multilateral treaties could be said to exist, especially as the draft guidelines did not establish the time by which such position had to be established.
Interpretative declarations often provided the only way for States to subscribe to a general multilateral instrument, and the Special Rapporteur should consider them in the light of the specific cultures which influenced the legal regimes of nations.
However, it remains doubtful whether there exists something like the collective position of States parties in general multilateral treaties, in particular in view of the fact that no moment is indicated when this collective attitude must be established and that the States parties vary in time.
