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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
- English
The Council of State gives its opinion on the bills and proposals of law as well as on the amendments which might be proposed.
If it considers that a bill or proposal of law includes provisions which are nonconform with the Constitution, with the international treaties to which the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a party, with the juridical acts of the European Union or with the general principles of law [droit], it mentions it in its opinion.
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Except in cases of urgency to be assessed within the limits of the law by the Grand Duke, the Council of State gives its opinion on the bills of regulations to be taken for the execution of the international laws and treaties and for the application of the juridical acts of the European Union. If it considers that the bill of regulations is not in accordance with the norms of superior law [droit], it mentions it in its opinion.
... (Art. 95) - French
Le Conseil d’État donne son avis sur les projets de loi et les propositions de loi ainsi que sur les amendements qui pourraient y être proposés.
S’il estime qu’un projet de loi ou une proposition de loi comporte des dispositions non conformes à la Constitution, aux traités internationaux auxquels le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg est partie, aux actes juridiques de l’Union européenne ou aux principes généraux du droit, il en fait mention dans son avis.
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Sauf les cas d’urgence à apprécier dans les limites de la loi par le Grand-Duc, le Conseil d’État donne son avis sur les projets de règlement à prendre pour l’exécution des lois et des traités internationaux et pour l’application des actes juridiques de l’Union européenne. S’il estime que le projet de règlement n’est pas conforme aux normes de droit supérieures, il en fait mention dans son avis.
... (Art. 95)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe following principles govern national security in the Republic:
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(c) National security must be pursued in compliance with the law, including international law.
… (Sec. 198)
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༽
Status of International Law
- English1. The King declares war, makes peace and concludes treaties and agreements.
2. Treaties and agreements which entail any expenditures to the Treasury of the State or affect the public or private rights of Jordanians shall not be valid unless approved by the Parliament; and in no case shall the secret terms in a treaty or agreement be contrary to the overt terms. (Art. 33) - Arabic1.الملك هو الذي يعلن الحرب ويعقد الصلح ويبرم المعاهدات والاتفاقات.
2. المعاهدات والاتفاقات التي يترتب عليها تحميل خزانة الدولة شيئاً من النفقات او مساس في حقوق الاردنيين العامة او الخاصة لا تكون نافذة الا اذا وافق عليها مجلس الامة ولا يجوز في أي حال ان تكون الشروط السرية في معاهدة او اتفاق ما مناقضة للشروط العلنية. (المادّة 33)
Status of International Law
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of Article 50 and paragraph 3 of Article 57—
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3. treaties, conventions and agreements concluded in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Article shall have, as from their publication in the official Gazette of the Republic, superior force to any municipal law on condition that such treaties, conventions and agreements are applied by the other party thereto.
4. The Republic may exercise every option and discretionary power provided for by the Treaties establishing the European Communities and the Treaty on the European Union and any treaties amending or substituting them, concluded by the Republic. (Art. 169) - GreekΤηρουμένων των διατάξεων του άρθρου 50 και της τρίτης παραγράφου του άρθρου 57
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3. Συνθήκαι, συμβάσεις και συμφωνίαι συνομολογούμεναι συμφώνως ταις ειρημέναις διατάξεσι του παρόντος άρθρου έχουσιν από της δημοσιεύσεως αυτών εις την επίσημον εφημερίδα της Δημοκρατίας ηυξημένην ισχύν έναντι οιουδήποτε ημεδαπού νόμου, υπό τον όρον ότι αι τοιαύται συνθήκαι, συμβάσεις και συμφωνίαι εφαρμόζονται αντιστοίχως και υπό του αντισυμβαλλομένου.
4. Η Δημοκρατία δύναται να ασκεί κάθε της επιλογή και διακριτική ευχέρεια που προβλέπεται στις Συνθήκες περί Ιδρύσεως των Ευρωπαϊκών Κοινοτήτων και στη Συνθήκη για την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση και σε οποιεσδήποτε συνθήκες τροποποιούν ή αντικαθιστούν αυτές και η Δημοκρατία συνομολογεί. (Αρθρον 169) - Turkish50. Madde ve 57. Maddedeki hükümlere tabi olmak kaydıyla:
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3. bu maddenin yukarıdaki hükümlerine uygun olarak akdolunan antlaşmalar, sözleşmeler ve anlaşmalar, Cumhuriyet Resmi Gazetesinde yayımIanmasından itibaren, diğer tarafın söz konusu antlaşmaları, sözleşmeleri ve anlaşmaları uygulaması şartı ile, herhangi bir iç kanundan üstün tutulur,
4. Cumhuriyet, Avrupa Topluluklarını kuran Anlaşmalar ve Avrupa Birliği Anlaşması ve bunlarda değişiklik yapan veya bunların yerine geçen, Cumhuriyetin akdettiği bütün anlaşmaların verdiği her seçeneği ve takdir yetkisini kullanabilir. (Madde 169)
Status of International Law
- English1. Laws and international treaties recognized as non-compliant with the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan may not be signed or, accordingly, ratified and enforced.
… (Art. 74) - Kazak1. Қазақстан Республикасының Конституциясына сәйкес емес деп танылған заңдар мен халықаралық шарттарға қол қойылмайды не, тиiсiнше, бекiтiлмейдi және күшiне енгiзiлмейдi.
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Status of International Law
- English
The constitutionality of Acts of Parliament and treaties shall not be reviewed by the courts. (Art. 120)
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De rechter treedt niet in de beoordeling van de grondwettigheid van wetten en verdragen. (Art. 120)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe State must ensure that all international conventions, treaties and agreements to which Zimbabwe is a party are incorporated into domestic law. (Sec. 34)
Status of International Law
- English
The citizens of Mongolia are guaranteed to exercise the following rights and freedoms:
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14/ the right to appeal to the court to protect his/her rights if he/she considers that the rights or freedoms as stated by the Mongolian law or an international treaty have been violated;
… (Art. 16) - Mongolian
Монгол Улсын иргэн дараахь үндсэн эрх, эрх чөлөөг баталгаатай эдэлнэ:
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14) Монгол Улсын хууль, олон улсын гэрээнд заасан эрх, эрх чөлөө нь зөрчигдсөн гэж үзвэл уул эрхээ хамгаалуулахаар шүүхэд гомдол гаргах … эрхтэй. …
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