unilateral statement

There is a lot more which could be said about the rest of the text, for example, Russia, in its unilateral statement, asks for money.

Unilateral statements and unilateral actions are never a good choice, nor do they send out the right message.

What powers has the European Union to control the unilateral statements of the countries who wish to accede to this agreement?

Reservations are unilateral statements purporting to exclude or to modify the legal obligation and its effects on the reserving state.

We are aware that it was a unilateral statement without legal effect, but for that very reason it was serious and unjustified.

In Nuclear Tests unilateral statements of the French authorities were said by the Court to have been made 'publicly and erga omnes'.

The P.L.O. leadership has probably gone as far as it can in making unilateral statements and gestures without some clear evidence of Israeli reassurance.

That, ladies and gentlemen, has disappeared from the version currently under discussion and has been replaced with unilateral statements by the countries wishing to accede to this agreement.

The United States resisted a joint statement because of the recent memory of The War of 1812, leading to the Monroe administration's unilateral statement.

The only things we did agree at that conciliation were two bland statements, one on agriculture, one on category 5, but Parliament made a unilateral statement concerning the fisheries.

While the extension of the customs agreement amounts to its indirect recognition, a unilateral statement is made at the same time to the effect that it is not recognised at all.

Further, the authorities in a number of nuclear states have made unilateral statements of one kind or another which indicate that their nuclear weapons may not have escaped entirely from laws-of-war restraints.

The Union's position on the matter is set out in the EU unilateral statement, which also forms part of the London package, and which was confirmed by the Council on 25 May.

The Yugoslav President has agreed to end all police and military operations in Kosovo, withdraw forces in a verifiable way and make a unilateral statement pledging partial autonomy to the province, American officials said.

However, I note with regret that, only a few days after signing this agreement, the Prime Minister of Croatia also signed a unilateral statement which places a one-sided interpretation on the recently signed agreement.

American officials said today that Mr. Milosevic was ready to agree to a unilateral statement granting limited autonomy to ethnic Albanians in the areas of local government, schools and policing and promising a full review of the province's status in three years' time.

A unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty whereby it purports to exclude or modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State.

It also states that the April 2010 unilateral statement by the Russian Federation on missile defense does not impose any legal obligation on the United States and that any further limitations would require Treaty amendment subject to the Senate's advice and consent.

Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China scholar at the University of Michigan, said Mr. Gingrich seemed to commit the United States to defending Taiwan even if Taiwan took provocative steps like making unilateral statements that could be construed as declarations of independence.

According to a unilateral statement by the Home Office, places of safety should typically be hospitals, other medical facilities, residential care homes or the home of a relative or friend of the person; police stations should only be used as a "place of safety" as a last resort.

We denounce in the strongest terms the unilateral statement made by the Commission once the compromise was reached between the Council and Parliament, and, in the light of the statements made today, we presume that, as a consequence of the new legislation, a halt will be called to the infringement proceedings against Denmark and Austria.