Sentence examples for a legally binding resolution from inspiring English sources

Western and Arab countries want to go a step further with a legally binding resolution but Russia's opposition dooms their effort.

The African Union said Friday that it would form a panel of heads of state to come up with a legally binding resolution to the leadership crisis in Ivory Coast within one month.

U.S., British and Japanese officials attempted to increase pressure on North Korea through the United Nations, presenting the Security Council with the draft of a legally binding resolution demanding that the North Korean government immediately cease the development, deployment, testing and proliferation of ballistic missiles.

To draw an obvious parallel, if a legally binding resolution were passed that many American Indians perished from genocide, the U.S. would face questions of reparations and restitution of lands ranging from Oklahoma City to the prairies to upstate New York.

A legally binding resolution under chapter VII of the UN Charter prohibiting the use of nuclear weapons against non nuclear weapon states party to the NPT.

Or, if there had to be a UN statement, did it have to commit the U.S. to a legally binding resolution?

Finland, the report notes, recently passed a legally-binding resolution to receive 38percentt of their final energy from renewable sources by 2020; currently, the country already gets two-thirds of its electricity from renewable or nuclear power.

The UN Security Council has issued a statement, but no legally binding resolution.

Finally, Idaho locked in a legally binding Senate resolution in March that deletes material about climate change and human impact on the environment from the state's science standards.

Unlike the security council, which has the power to issue legally binding resolutions, general assembly resolutions are non-binding.

The security council is the UN's most powerful body, the only one with the authority to issue legally binding resolutions that can be backed up by sanctions, blue-helmeted peacekeepers or by force of arms.