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Status of International Law
- EnglishThe treaties or agreements regularly ratified or approved have, on their publication, an authority superior to that of the laws, subject, for each agreement or treaty, to their application by the other party. (Art. 80)
- Arabicللمعاهدات أو الاتّفاقيات المصادق عليها و الموافق عليها كذلك سلطة أعلى من سلطة القوانين وذلك فور نشرها شريطة أن يطبّق الطرف الثاني المعاهدة أو الاتفاقية. (المادّة 80)
- FrenchLes traités ou accords régulièrement ratifiés ou approuvés ont, dès leur publication, une autorité supérieure à celle des lois, sous réserve, pour chaque accord ou traité, de son application par l'autre partie. (Art. 80)
Status of International Law
- EnglishAgreements with other powers and with organizations based on international law shall be concluded by, or by authority of, the President and shall be, insofar as the agreements require, ratified by the President. These agreements shall be communicated to the National Assembly as soon as possible; they shall not be ratified and they shall not enter into force until they have received the approval of the National Assembly. (Art. 103)
- DutchOvereenkomsten met andere mogendheden en met volkenrechtelijke organisaties worden door of met machtiging van de President gesloten en voor zover de overeenkomst dat eist, door de President bekrachtigd. Deze overeenkomsten worden zo spoedig mogelijk aan De Nationale Assemblée medegedeeld; zij worden niet bekrachtigd en treden niet in werking dan nadat zij door De Nationale Assemblée zijn goedgekeurd. (Art. 103)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Emir shall conclude treaties and agreements by a decree and refer them to Al-Shoura Council accompanied with appropriate explanatory notes. The treaty or agreement shall have the power of law after ratification and publication in the official Gazette; however, reconciliation treaties and treaties pertaining to the territory of the State or those relating to the right of sovereignty or public or private rights of the citizens, or those that involve an amendment of the laws of the State shall come into force when the same are issued as a law. Under no case may a treaty include secret conditions contradicting its publicized conditions. (Art. 68)
- Arabicيبرم الأمير المعاهدات والاتفاقيات بمرسوم، ويبلغها لمجلس الشورى مشفوعة بما يناسب من البيان. وتكون للمعاهدة أو الاتفاقية قوّة القانون بعد التّصديق عليها ونشرها في الجريدة الرّسمية، على أن معاهدات الصّلح والمعاهدات المتعلقة بإقليم الدولة أو بحقوق السيادة أو حقوق المواطنين العامة أو الخاصة أو التي تتضمن تعديلا لقوانين الدولة، يجب لنفاذها أن تصدر بقانون. ولا يجوز في أي حال أن تتضمّن المعاهدة شروطا سرّية تناقض شروطها العلنية. (المادّة 68)
Status of International Law
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Generally accepted rules of international law and ratified international treaties shall be an integral part of the legal system in the Republic of Serbia and applied directly.
Ratified international treaties must be in accordance with the Constitution. (Art. 16) - Serbian Cyrillic
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Општеприхваћена правила међународног права и потврђени међународни уговори саставни су део правног поретка Републике Србије и непосредно се примењују.
Потврђени међународни уговори морају бити у складу с Уставом. (Члан 16)
Status of International Law
- English1. The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe shall contribute resolutely toward the safeguarding of world peace, toward the establishing of relations with equal rights and mutual respect for sovereignty among all States and toward the social advancement of humanity, on the basis of the principles of international law and peaceful coexistence.
2. The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe shall proclaim its adherence to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to its principles and objectives of the African Union and of the United Nations.
… (Art. 12) - Portuguese1. A República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe está decidida a contribuir para a salvaguarda da paz universal, para o estabelecimento de relações de igualdade de direitos e respeito mútuo da soberania entre todos os Estados e para o progresso social da humanidade, na base dos princípios do direito internacional e da coexistência pacífica.
2. A República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe proclama a sua adesão à Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem e aos seus princípios e objectivos da União Africana e da Organização das Nações Unidas.
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Status of International Law
- EnglishThe state shall observe the United Nations Charter, inter-state agreements, as well as international treaties to which Afghanistan has joined, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. … (Art. 7)
- Dariدولت منشور ملل متحد، معاهدات بین الدول، میثاق های بین المللی كه افغانستان به آن ملحق شده است و اعلامیۀ جهانی حقوق بشر را رعایت می كند. ... (مادۀ ۷)
- Pashtoدولت د ملگرو ملتونو د منشور، د بين الدول معاهدو، د نړيوالو ميثاقونو چې افغانستان له هغو سره تړاو لري او د بشري حقوقو د نړيوالې اعلاميې رعايت كوي. ... (۷ ماده)
Status of International Law
- EnglishRights and freedoms of a person and a citizen in Turkmenistan shall be recognized in accordance with the universally recognized norms of international law and shall be guaranteed by this Constitution and laws. (Art. 25)
- RussianВ Туркменистане права и свободы человека и гражданина признаются в соответствии с общепризнанными нормами международного права и гарантируются настоящей Конституцией и законами. (Статья 25)
- TurkmenTürkmenistanda adamyň we raýatyň hukuklary we azatlyklary halkara hukugynyň umumy ykrar edilen kadalaryna laýyklykda ykrar edilýär hem-de şu Konstitusiýa we kanunlar bilen kepillendirilýär. (25-nji madda)
Status of International Law
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The Slovak Republic shall be the successor to all the rights and duties ensuing from international treaties and agreements binding on the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic to the extent fixed by a constitutional statute issued in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic or to the extent specified in an agreement made between the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. (Art. 153)
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Na Slovenskú republiku prechádzajú práva a povinnosti z medzinárodných zmlúv, ktorými je Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika viazaná, a to v rozsahu ustanovenom ústavným zákonom Českej a Slovenskej Federatívnej Republiky alebo v rozsahu dohodnutom medzi Slovenskou republikou a Českou republikou. (Čl. 153)
Status of International Law
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(5) The security services must act, and must teach and require their members to act, in accordance with the Constitution and the law, including customary international law and international agreements binding on the Republic.
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Status of International Law
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24. The State shall endeavour to promote goodwill and co-operation with nations, foster respect for international law and treaty obligations, and encourage settlement of international disputes by peaceful means in order to promote international peace and security. (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༢༤) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཚུ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ལེགས་སྨོན་དང་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་དང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ ཁྲིམས་དང་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་གི་འགན་ཁུར་ཚུ་ལུ་བརྩི་བཀུར་བསྐྱེད་དེ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེ་དང་བདེ་སྲུང་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ཞི་བདེའི་ཐབས་ལམ་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ཉོགས་འཛིང་ཚུ་སེལ་ཐབས་ཀྱི་བློ་བསྐུལ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽