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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
- EnglishAt the request of the Government, or courts, the Supreme Court shall review the laws, legislative decrees, international treaties as well as international covenants for their compliance with the Constitution and their interpretation in accordance with the law. (Art. 121)
- Dariبررسی مطابقت قوانین، فرامین تقنینی، معاهدات بین الدول و میثاق های بین المللی با قانون اساسی و تفسیر آنها بر اساس تقاضای حكومت و یا محاكم، مطابق به احكام قانون از صلاحیت ستره محكمه می باشد. (مادۀ ۱۲۱)
- Pashtoله اساسي قانون سره د قوانينو، تقنيني فرمانونو، بين الدول معاهدو او بين المللي ميثاقونو د مطابقت څېړل، د حكومت يا محاكمو په غوښتنه او د هغو تفسير د قانون له حكمونو سره سم د سترې محكمې صلاحيت دى. (۱۲۱ ماده)
Status of International Law
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B. Lebanon has an Arab identity and belonging. It is a founding active member of the Arab League, committed to its Charter; as it is a founding active member of the United Nations Organization, committed to its Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The State embodies these principles in all sectors and scopes without exception.
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ب. لبنان عربي الهوية والانتماء وهو عضو مؤسس وعامل في جامعة الدول العربية وملتزم بميثاقها، كما هو عضو مؤسس وعامل في منظمة الأمم المتحدة وملتزم بميثاقها وبالإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان وتجسّد الدّولة هذه المبادئ في جميع الحقوق والمجالات دون استثناء.
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Status of International Law
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4. A judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal on the non-conformity to the Constitution, an international agreement or statute, of a normative act on the basis of which a legally effective judgment of a court, a final administrative decision or settlement of other matters was issued, shall be a basis for re-opening proceedings, for quashing the decision or other settlement in a manner and on principles specified in provisions applicable to the given proceedings.
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4. Orzeczenie Trybunału Konstytucyjnego o niezgodności z Konstytucją, umową międzynarodową lub z ustawą aktu normatywnego, na podstawie którego zostało wydane prawomocne orzeczenie sądowe, ostateczna decyzja administracyjna lub rozstrzygnięcie w innych sprawach, stanowi podstawę do wznowienia postępowania, uchylenia decyzji lub innego rozstrzygnięcia na zasadach i w trybie określonych w przepisach właściwych dla danego postępowania.
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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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25. Except for existing International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements entered into by Bhutan, which shall continue in force subject to section 10 of Article 1, all International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements duly acceded to by the Government hereafter, shall be deemed to be the law of the Kingdom only upon ratification by Parliament unless it is inconsistent with this Constitution. (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
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༢༥) རྩ་ཚན་༡ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༠ པ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ འབྲུག་གིས་དངོས་གཏོགས་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆ་ གནས་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་ཚུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིན་ཆད་གཞུང་གིས་ངོས་སྦྱོར་ཚུལ་མཐུན་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་བཅས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྦེ་ཆ་བཞག་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༠༽
Status of International Law
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(2) All cases involving the constitutionality of a treaty, international or executive agreement, or law, which shall be heard by the Supreme Court en banc,
... (Art. VIII, Sec. 4) - Filipino
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(2) Ang lahat ng mga usaping may kinalaman sa konstitusyonaliti ng ano mang kasunduang-bansa, kasunduang internasyonal o tagapagpaganap, o batas na dapat dinggin ng Kataastaasang Hukuman en banc, ... (Art. VIII, Seksyon 4)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Russian Federation may participate in interstate associations and transfer some of its powers to those associations in accordance with international treaties of the Russian Federation provided that this does not entail restrictions on human and civil rights and freedoms and does not conflict with the basic principles of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation. Decisions of international bodies, taken on the basis of provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation in their interpretation that contradicts the Constitution of the Russian Federation shall not be executed in the Russian Federation. (Art. 79)
- RussianРоссийская Федерация может участвовать в межгосударственных объединениях и передавать им часть своих полномочий в соответствии с международными договорами Российской Федерации, если это не влечет за собой ограничения прав и свобод человека и гражданина и не противоречит основам конституционного строя Российской Федерации. Решения межгосударственных органов, принятые на основании положений международных договоров Российской Федерации в их истолковании, противоречащем Конституции Российской Федерации, не подлежат исполнению в Российской Федерации. (Статья 79)
Status of International Law
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The Constitutional Court is exclusively competent in the matter of control of constitutionality:
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2- of the treaties that the President of the Republic submits to it before the promulgation of the law including the adoption of those treaties,
... (Art. 127) - Arabic
تختصّ المحكمة الدّستوريّة بالنّظر في مراقبة دستوريّة:
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2. المعاهدات التي يعرضها رئيس الجمهوريّة قبل ختم قانون الموافقة عليها.
... (الفصل 127) - French
La Cour constitutionnelle est exclusivement compétente en matière de contrôle de constitutionnalité :
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2. des traités que lui soumet le Président de la République avant la promulgation de la loi portant adoption de ces traités,
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