Sentence examples for basic documents of international law from inspiring English sources

Many contradict each other, or other basic documents of international law, such as the United Nations Charter.

This corresponds to the fundamental documents of international law.

It simply reflects basic rules of international law.

The international community should support that kind of effort, and reinforce it by assuring the basic norms of international law.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the attacks on journalists were an affront to the most basic principles of international law.

Syria has violated basic norms of international law and humanity by using chemical weapons on its own people.

But in this case, he said, basic principles of international law apply, and that attacking Iraq without a specific provocation would violate those norms.

Mr. Putin, a staunch defender of Russia's sovereignty over the rebel region of Chechnya, said, "If we allow international law to be replaced by the law of the first, in which the strong is always right, and has the right to do anything, then one of the most basic principles of international law will come into question: the inviolability of state sovereignty".

3. Europe has made a commitment to comply with the basic norms of international law.

If Syria continues to violate basic norms of international law, Trump will have to back up the actions he has taken thus far.

What the Philippines did in pushing the arbitration in Hague is contradictory to basic principles of international law in general and UNCLOS in particular.