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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
- English1. A Special Highest Court shall be established, the jurisdiction of which shall comprise:
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f) The settlement of controversies related to the designation of rules of international law as generally acknowledged in accordance with article 28 paragraph 1.
… (Art. 100) - Greek1. Συνιστάται Aνώτατο Eιδικό Δικαστήριο στο οποίο υπάγονται:
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στ) H άρση της αμφισβήτησης για το χαρακτηρισμό κανόνων του διεθνούς δικαίου ως γενι- κά παραδεγμένων κατά την παράγραφο 1 του άρθρου 28.
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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. If the Constitutional Court declares that any rule contained in a piece of legislation, treaty, convention or international agreement is unconstitutional, it must be vetoed by the President of the Republic and returned to the body which had approved it.
3. In cases provided for under the previous point, the legislation, treaty, convention or international agreement may not be enacted, ratified or signed, as appropriate, unless the body that passed it expunges the rule that has been deemed unconstitutional.
… (Art. 229) - Portuguese…
2. Se o Tribunal Constitucional declarar a inconstitucionalidade de norma constante de qualquer diploma legal, tratado, convenção ou acordo internacional, deve o mesmo ser vetado pelo Presidente da República e devolvido ao órgão que o tiver aprovado.
3. No caso do número anterior, o diploma, tratado, convenção ou acordo internacional não pode ser promulgado, ratificado ou assinado, conforme os casos, sem que o órgão que o tiver aprovado expurgue a norma julgada inconstitucional.
… (Art. 229)
Status of International Law
- English(1) When interpreting this Chapter12, a court, tribunal, forum or body—
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(c) must take into account international law and all treaties and conventions to which Zimbabwe is a party;
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in addition to considering all other relevant factors that are to be taken into account in the interpretation of a Constitution.
… (Sec. 46)
Status of International Law
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(1) The Constitutional Court:
a) exercises, upon appeal, the review of constitutionality over laws and decisions of the Parliament, decrees of the President, decisions and ordinances of the Government, as well as over international treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party;
… (Art. 135) - Moldovian
(1) Curtea Constituţională:
(a) exercită, la sesizare, controlul constituţionalităţii legilor şi hotărîrilor Parlamentului, a decretelor Preşedintelui Republicii Moldova, a hotărîrilor şi ordonanţelor Guvernului, precum şi a tratatelor internaţionale la care Republica Moldova este parte;
… (Art. 135)
Status of International Law
- English1. If the Constitutional Court rules in favor of the unconstitutionality of a rule contained in an international treaty or agreement, the latter must not be ratified by the President of the Republic, who shall return it to the organ that had approved it.
2. An international treaty or agreement that contains a rule declared to be unconstitutional may be ratified by the President of the Republic if the National Assembly, in consulting the Government, confirms its approval by a majority of two thirds of the Deputies in full exercise of their functions.
… (Art. 279) - Portuguese1. Se o Tribunal Constitucional se pronunciar pela inconstitucionalidade da norma constante de tratado ou acordo internacional, este não deve ser ratificado pelo Presidente da República, sendo devolvido ao órgão que o tiver aprovado.
2. O tratado ou acordo internacional de que conste a norma declarada inconstitucional pode ser ratificado pelo Presidente da República se a Assembleia Nacional, ouvido o Governo, confirmar a sua aprovação por maioria de dois terços dos Deputados em efectividade de funções.
… (Art. 279)
Status of International Law
- English1. Judicial authority shall be exercised on behalf of the Republic of Kazakhstan and, by its purpose, has the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens and organizations and the enforcement of the Constitution, laws, other normative legal acts and international treaties of the Republic.
2. The judicial power extends to all cases and disputes arising on the basis of the Constitution, laws, other regulatory legal acts and international treaties of the Republic.
… (Art. 76) - Kazak1. Сот билiгi Қазақстан Республикасының атынан жүзеге асырылады және өзiне азаматтар мен ұйымдардың құқықтарын, бостандықтары мен заңды мүдделерiн қорғауды, Республиканың Конституциясының, заңдарының, өзге де нормативтiк құқықтық актiлерiнiң, халықаралық шарттарының орындалуын қамтамасыз етудi мақсат етiп қояды.
2. Сот билiгi Республика Конституциясының, заңдарының, өзге де нормативтiк құқықтық актiлерiнiң, халықаралық шарттарының негiзiнде туындайтын барлық iстер мен дауларға қолданылады.
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Status of International Law
- EnglishIn addition to those established by law, the powers of the Pluri-National Constitutional Court, are to hear and resolve the following:
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9. The review of the constitutionality of international treaties prior to their ratification.
… (Art. 202) - SpanishSon atribuciones del Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional, además de las establecidas en la Constitución y la ley, conocer y resolver:
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9. El control previo de constitucionalidad en la ratificación de tratados internacionales.
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Status of International Law
- EnglishThe fundamental values of the constitutional order of the Republic of North Macedonia are:
- the basic freedoms and rights of the individual and citizen, recognized in international law and set down in the Constitution;
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- respect for the generally accepted norms of international law.
… (Art. 8) - MacedonianТемелни вредности на уставниот поредок на Република Северна Македонија се:
- основните слободи и права на човекот и граѓанинот признати со меѓународното право и утврдени со Уставот;
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- почитувањето на општо прифатените норми на меѓународното право.
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