LAW 724 Lecture Notes - International Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations Conference On Trade And Development
3 Oct 2014
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Also: ointernational agreements oprotocols ocovenants oexchange of letters / notes. Legal effect: self-executing vs. non-self-executing, coming into force provisions, examples of treaties. Follow up to the 1992 un framework convention on climate change. Final draft of protocol negotiated dec. 1997. Vienna convention on the law of treaties: Requirements of a treaty (articles 2 & 3) http://untreaty. un. org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969. pdf oan international agreement oparties must be subjects of international law ointent to create binding obligations ogoverned by international law. Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of states (1936): permanent population, defined territory, government, capacity to enter into relations with other states. Definition: the supreme and independent power and authority claimed by a nation state over its own territory. The organization and its members, in pursuit of the purposes stated in article 1, shall act in accordance with the following principles. * the organization is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members.
