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The mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United Nations Development Programme welcomed the decision in the light of the recent weapons exports by Bosnia and Herzegovina to Armenia and Azerbaijan in breach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina commitments to the OSCE Principles Governing Conventional Arms Transfers, and in conflict with the European Union Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP.

Family rights are protected by law, with the exception of the cases when these are used contrary to their purpose or legal provisions.

For its part, Eritrea is not willing to endorse invasion and domination under the umbrella of IGAD and be party to the atrocities perpetrated against the Somali people in contravention of justice and truth.

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The customary and sharia courts therefore constituted a single formal legal system available to the populations under colonization that aimed to apply customary and Islamic laws to resolve differences involving marriage, family affairs and personal status in parallel with ordinary courts.

A statutory declaration in writing by a Director that a share has been duly forfeited in pursuance of these Articles and stating the time when it was forfeited shall, as against all persons claiming to be entitled to the share adversely to the forfeiture thereof, be conclusive evidence of the facts therein stated and such declaration together with a certificate of proprietorship of the share under the Seal delivered to a purchaser or allottee thereof shall constitute a good title to the share and the new holder thereof shall be discharged from all calls made prior to such purchase or allotment and shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money nor shall his title to the share be affected by any act, omission or irregularity relating to or connected with the proceedings in reference to the forfeiture, sale, re-allotment or disposal of the share.

55In the public sector, these are seen as a problem particularly, for example, when one university wishes to access the patented technology of another for research, which some see as perverse when both are publicly funded.

There is no sound reason to exclude the human rights standards that apply specifically to indigenous peoples from the application of the Guiding Principles, and to do so would be contrary to the injunction, found among the Guiding Principles’ introductory paragraphs, that they should be applied “in a non-discriminatory manner”, with particular attention to the rights and needs of groups that are vulnerable or marginalized.

The representative concluded by saying that UNASUR rejected the United Kingdom’s conduct of military exercises in the Islands, which ran counter to the region’s policy of seeking to resolve the dispute by exclusively peaceful means (see A/C.4/66/SR.5).

One of the documents currently before the committee (A/C.5/63/3/Add.1) was presented as containing the views of Secretariat staff, but in fact it contained views of both management and staff representatives, some of whom were not even part of the Secretariat, as required by General Assembly resolution 35/213 and regulation 8.2 of the Staff Regulations.

(c) The juvenile justice system is not in compliance with the provisions of the Convention regarding children in conflict with the law, and there is lack of specialization in juvenile justice among the judges and other professionals working with children in conflict with the law.

(d) Accelerate efforts for the review and reform of legislation and legal provisions that limit fundamental freedoms and contravene international standards; establish clear, time-bound target dates for the conclusion of the review; identify priority legislation for urgent review, including those provisions previously identified; and consider establishing a law reform commission to facilitate the accelerated review of existing laws and bring them into full compliance with relevant international human rights standards

The domestic courts did not consider that it was impossible to assess the risk of treatment contrary to article 7 of the Covenant within the application centre procedure.

Moreover, the provision by certain exporting States of technical assistance on nuclear issues to non-States parties indicated the existence of double standards and was in contravention with the Treaty and decision 2 adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference, which stipulated that new supply arrangements for the transfer of nuclear materials should require acceptance of the Agency’s full-scope safeguards and internationally legally binding commitments not to acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices.

Having agreed that the Secured Transactions Guide was consistent with the guiding principles of UNCITRAL texts on e-commerce, the Working Group also considered certain issues arising from the use of electronic communications in security rights registries to ensure that, like the Secured Transactions Guide, the text on registration would also be consistent with those principles (A/CN.9/714, paras. 34-47).

The dangers of this approach are that the paradox of State-building — designing governance processes as aid-delivery mechanisms, with the accompanying fragmentation and lack of strategy — will grow more pronounced; alternatives under current conditions of global financial and economic crisis will not be explored; and an increasing number of resources will be consumed by the international coordination process rather than by country-programmable aid.

As a result of this anomaly, three accounts have abnormally high balances, thus necessitating painstaking work to clear the accounts.

One problem that occurs in areas where waste disposal has been privatized is the perverse incentive embedded in certain concession contract models, whereby companies’ remuneration is proportional to the volume of waste, which in effect eliminates incentives to promote reduction at source, recycling and other waste generation reduction measures.

Even where new examiners have been appointed, it is still unlikely that the patent system will satisfy the demands for quick and relatively inexpensive delivery of high quality patents.

Existing Agreement If we have an existing formal written agreement with you governing our purchase of your goods or services, then the terms in the formal written agreement will supersede any contrary terms in this order.

As Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large, and former President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, Tommy Koh, has observed, such a claim would be incompatible with existing international law”.

Accordingly, the Plurinational State of Bolivia has not enacted any laws or applied any measures that restrict trade with any country, including the fraternal Republic of Cuba, as they would be contrary to the purposes of General Assembly resolution 64/6.

Gravely concerned that, in some instances, national security and counter-terrorism legislation and other measures have been misused to target human rights defenders or have hindered their work and safety in a manner contrary to international law

The Committee strongly recommends that, once the legal review is finalized and the concerned Bills are adopted as laws, the new laws supersede all relevant legislation that is not in conformity with the Convention.

The Dominican Republic abides, in its international relations, by the international norms and principles governing cooperation and trade among nations, underpinned by the Charter of the United Nations and the other norms of international law.

In short, those civilians are still being subjected to everything that is contrary to the law, their only fault being that they reside in so-called areas of armed conflict or that their lands have been occupied by others and have been managed and administered in their absence — or even in their presence.

The Group believes that all States, with major space capabilities, have special responsibility to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful use of outer space and of the prevention of an arms race in outer space and to refrain from actions contrary to that objective and to the relevant existing treaties in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international cooperation.