In written evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Mr Ellwood said the 2011 Benghazi Agreement to compensate IRA terror victims fell "a long way short" of an internationally binding legal document.
"We would have an interest in joining an internationally binding agreement as long as China and India are also legally bound".
For most people, protecting the environment starts at their front door, not with an internationally binding global agreement on dangerous climate change.
It is hoped that delegates will lay the groundwork for a new deal on emission targets, so that an internationally binding commitment to reduce emissions can be reached before Kyoto expires next year.
The Good Friday Agreement is an internationally binding treaty that was signed in 1998 and helped end more than three decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
Held in early November in Morocco, the convention focused on how to implement the Paris Agreement, which aims to set an internationally binding emission reduction target by 2020.
The moral imperative to Inspirare -- breathe life into an internationally binding climate agreement that was just, socially equitable, environmentally sound was universal.
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an internationally binding instrument that protects the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women.
This is defined in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is an internationally legally binding document containing principles founded on respect for the dignity and worth of each child, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, opinions, origins, wealth, birth status or ability.
Meanwhile, the nations of the world were negotiating an internationally-binding treaty to be concluded in Copenhagen in December of 2009.
In July 2010, negotiations on the terms of the Arms Trade Treaty began in New York, leading up to a conference in 2012, where it is hoped member states will develop, sign and ratify an internationally-binding deal.
