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Status of International Law
- English1. General or common international law received under the terms of this Constitution shall form an integral part of the Angolan legal system.
2. Duly approved or ratified international treaties and agreements shall come into force in the Angolan legal system after they have been officially published and have entered into force in the international legal system, for as long as they are internationally binding upon the Angolan state. (Art. 13) - Portuguese1. O direito internacional geral ou comum, recebido nos termos da presente Constituição, faz parte integrante da ordem jurídica angolana.
2. Os tratados e acordos internacionais regularmente aprovados ou ratificados vigoram na ordem jurídica angolana após a sua publicação oficial e entrada em vigor na ordem jurídica internacional e enquanto vincularem internacionalmente o Estado angolano. (Art. 13)
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.
… (Art. 12)
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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International treaties ratified by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania shall be a constituent part of the legal system of the Republic of Lithuania. (Art. 138) - Lithuanian…
Tarptautinės sutartys, kurias ratifikavo Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas, yra sudedamoji Lietuvos Respublikos teisinės sistemos dalis. (138 straipsnis)
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.
… (Sec. 199)
Status of International Law
- English
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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
- EnglishThe constitutional bodies shall take all measures within the scope of their competences to ensure the full integration of Georgia into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (Art. 78)
- Georgianკონსტიტუციურმა ორგანოებმა თავიანთი უფლებამოსილების ფარგლებში მიიღონ ყველა ზომა ევროპის კავშირსა და ჩრდილოატლანტიკური ხელშეკრულების ორგანიზაციაში საქართველოს სრული ინტეგრაციის უზრუნველსაყოფად. (მუხლი 78)
Status of International Law
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The protector of human rights and liberties shall exercise duties on the basis of the Constitution, the law and the confirmed international agreements, observing also the principles of justice and fairness.
… (Art. 81) - Montenegrin…
Zaštitnik ljudskih prava i sloboda vrši funkciju na osnovu Ustava, zakona i potvrđenih međunarodnih ugovora, pridržavajući se i načela pravde i pravičnosti.
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Status of International Law
- English
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,
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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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Status of International Law
- English
In the Kyrgyz Republic, human and civil rights and freedoms are recognised and guaranteed in accordance with universally recognised principles and norms of international law, as well as international treaties to which the Kyrgyz Republic is a party, which have entered into force in accordance with the procedure established by law. (Art. 55)
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В Кыргызской Республике признаются и гарантируются права и свободы человека и гражданина в соответствии с общепризнанными принципами и нормами международного права, а также вступившими в силу в установленном законодательством порядке международными договорами, участницей которых является Кыргызская Республика. (Статья 55)
- Kyrgyz
Кыргыз Республикасында адамдын жана жарандын укуктары жана эркиндиктери эл аралык укуктун жалпы таанылган принциптерине жана ченемдерине, ошондой эле Кыргыз Республикасы катышуучусу болуп саналган, мыйзамдарда белгиленген тартипте күчүнѳ кирген эл аралык келишимдерге ылайык таанылат жана кепилденет. (55-берене)