First instalments The first essay in the series comes from the Republic of Montenegro, the Convention's newest State signatory, which became a party to the treaty in November 2006.
Yet in any major crisis all eyes turn to Washington, as now in Syria when the regime is accused of violating a ban on the use of chemical weapons of which it is a signatory, but which a paralysed UN Security Council is powerless to enforce.
The expression that has been used to describe this is "Additional Protocol Plus .Under the terms of the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), every signatory, which includes Iran, has to agree to submit to IAEA safeguards which allow for verifiable accounting of all of a state's nuclear activities.
The army's latest communiqué has made it clear that Egypt will respect all treaties that it is a signatory of, which means that the Camp David Accords will be respected.
Undeterred, West submitted an amendment, with a record number of signatories, which was overwhelmingly backed by the conference.
The signatories, which include senior figures at Siemens, Lloyds Banking Group and PwC, welcomed investment in London's Crossrail and Birmingham's New Street Station, but called for a plan "to secure the UK's international connectivity".
The signatories, which include representatives from the rebel Sudanese Revolutionary Forces, National Consensus Forces, the National Umma Party, and the Alliance of the Sudanese Civil Society Organisations, write that Sudan is "sliding towards an abyss as a result of the policies of the regime".
The signatories, which include America's 18MillionRising.org and Europe's Free Press Unlimited as well as India's IT for Change and Nigeria's Paradigm Initiative, argue that Facebook is "building a walled garden in which the world's poorest people will only be able to access a limited set of insecure websites and survives".
Prison is an utterly disproportionate punishment, and would mark yet another example of heavy-handed treatment leading to the suppression of political dissent in the UK today," say the signatories, which include the heads of Greenpeace UK, Friends of the Earth Scotland and the New Economics Foundation.
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also called Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, agreement of July 1 , 1968 signed by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 59 other states, under which the three major signatories, which possessed nuclear weapons, agreed not to assist other states in obtaining or producing them.
