non-member state

It raises a very serious principle in that a non-member state such as Norway is getting better treatment than the Union itself.

The United Nations welcomes many international agencies, entities, and one non-member state as observers.

With this defensive terminology, aggression on the part of a member state toward a non-member state would result in no obligations under the Pact.

He could go to the UN General Assembly of 193 countries and ask to be recognised as a non-member state.

However, it is as tightly integrated with the ESA institutions as possible for a non-member state.

We have over 50 signatures, but unfortunately only seven are from Member States and ironically one is from a non-Member State – Switzerland.

The one UN non-member state that had not acceded to the convention is the Holy See/Vatican City.

After Palestines admission to the United Nations as a non-member state in September 2012, it potentially may have its complaint heard by the International Court.

A non-member state of the United Nations may also become a member if two-thirds of the UPU member countries approve its request.

The ENP offers a privileged relationship between the EU and all its current non-Member State neighbours to the south and east.

The Union has exerted a great deal of pressure on a small non-Member State and has, in the process, set aside the internal democratic decision taking in that country.

Although recently promoted to a non-member state status in the UN, the State of Palestine is not recognized by Israel and major Western nations, including the United States.

The United Nations does not classify it as a "non-member state" or "intergovernmental organization" but as one of the "other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers."

Some former territories of European Union members broke formal links with the EU when they gained independence from their ruling country or were transferred to an EU non-member state.

At the likely prospect of a veto, Palestinian leaders signalled they might opt instead for a more limited upgrade to "non-member state" status, which requires only the approval of the UN General Assembly.

Hughes also visited the non-member state of Vatican City, as well as the partially recognized non-member states of Palestine, Western Sahara, Kosovo, and Taiwan, for a total of 201 countries without flying.

The International Law Commission considered the possibility of sanctions against a non-member State which entailed obligations upon a member State conflicting with a treaty obligation with the non-member State.

The Finnish Presidency is therefore in a position to develop strategic dimensions that are also connected with the Northern Dimension, as there is also a non-Member State bordering on the Baltic Sea, namely Russia.

As you said, this was the worst avalanche disaster in Austria since the second world war, although of course other Alpine regions have also been hit, in Italy and France and in a non-Member State, Switzerland.

The Holy See is described as a "Non-member State having received a standing invitation to participate as observer in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent observer mission at Headquarters".

The P.L.O.'s most serious attempt to win such recognition is still under way at the United Nations General Assembly, where the organization wants to reclassify its observer mission as the representative of a non-member state, like Switzerland or the two Koreas.

I myself come from a constituency that will continue to border on a non-Member State, namely Switzerland. In this case we have found a variety of solutions, including legal solutions based on agreements and cooperation arrangements through integration and specific European programmes.

At the request of a Member State, Eurojust may also assist investigations and prosecutions concerning that particular Member State and a non-Member State, if a co-operation agreement has been concluded or if there is an essential interest in providing such assistance.

It found it 'indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions.'

The Article also requires member states to enact measures to prevent working around the Directive by imposing artificially, as the proper law of the contract, the law of a non-member state, where the contract has a close connection with the territory of the member states of the community.