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Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court decides:
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• on the conformity of laws and other regulations with ratified treaties and with the general principles of international law;
… (Art. 160) - SloveneUstavno sodišče odloča:
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- o skladnosti zakonov in drugih predpisov z ratificiranimi mednarodnimi pogodbami in s splošnimi načeli mednarodnega prava;
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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
- 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
- EnglishThe Republic of Belarus shall recognize the supremacy of the generally recognised principles of international law and shall ensure the compliance of laws therewith.
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Conclusion of treaties that are contrary to the Constitution shall not be permitted. (Art. 8) - BelarusianРэспубліка Беларусь прызнае прыярытэт агульнапрызнаных прынцыпаў міжнароднага права і забяспечвае адпаведнасць ім заканадаўства.
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Не дапускаецца заключэнне міжнародных дагавораў, якія супярэчаць Канстытуцыі. (Артыкул 8) - RussianРеспублика Беларусь признает приоритет общепризнанных принципов международного права и обеспечивает соответствие им законодательства.
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Не допускается заключение международных договоров, которые противоречат Конституции. (Статья 8)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court of Ukraine, upon submission of the President of Ukraine or not less than forty-five People's Deputies of Ukraine, or the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, provides opinions on compliance with the Constitution of Ukraine of international treaties of Ukraine that are in effect, or the international treaties submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for approval of their binding nature.
… (Art. 151) - UkrainianКонституційний Суд України за зверненням Президента України або Кабінету Міністрів України дає висновки про відповідність Конституції України чинних міжнародних договорів України або тих міжнародних договорів, що вносяться до Верховної Ради України для надання згоди на їх обов'язковість.
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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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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
- EnglishPursuant to Article 141 of the Constitution, the Republic of Croatia shall, as a Member State of the European Union, participate in the creation of European unity in order to ensure, together with other European states, lasting peace, liberty, security and prosperity, and to attain other common objectives in keeping with the founding principles and values of the European Union.
Pursuant to Articles 139 and 140 of the Constitution, the Republic of Croatia shall confer upon the institutions of the European Union the powers necessary for the enjoyment of rights and fulfilment of obligations ensuing from membership. (Art. 141a) - CroatianRepublika Hrvatska, na temelju članka 141. Ustava, kao država članica Europske unije, sudjeluje u stvaranju europskog zajedništva, kako bi zajedno s drugim europskim državama osigurala trajni mir, slobodu, sigurnost i blagostanje te ostvarila druge zajedničke ciljeve, u skladu s temeljnim načelima i vrijednostima na kojima se Europska unija zasniva.
Republika Hrvatska, na temelju članka 139. i 140. Ustava, institucijama Europske unije povjerava ovlasti koje su potrebne za ostvarivanje prava i ispunjavanje obveza preuzetih na temelju članstva. (Članak 141.a)
Status of International Law
- EnglishAny provision of this Constitution or a law enacted pursuant to it which is in conflict with the Trusteeship Agreement between the United States of America and the United Nations Security Council shall not become effective until the date of termination of such Trusteeship Agreement. (Art. XV, Sec. 10)
Status of International Law
- EnglishInternational agreements approved and ratified by the Assembly of the Representatives of the People have a status superior to that of laws and inferior to that of the Constitution. (Art. 20)
- Arabicالمعاهدات الموافق عليها من قبل المجلس النّيابي والمصادق عليها، أعلى من القوانين وأدنى من الدستور. (الفصل 20)
- FrenchLes conventions approuvées par le Parlement et ratifiées sont supérieures aux lois et inférieures à la Constitution. (Art. 20)