In her address to the Executive Board, Marta Santos Pais, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, noted that universal ratification and effective implementation of the Optional Protocols would constitute an invaluable contribution to child rights.
We advocate for universal ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty.
The administrator of general services officially certified ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment on July 7.
The White House distributed remarks by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, supporting ratification of the treaty.
"We need to cut deals with countries we have problems with, not pursue a general convention which requires ratification in many countries," says Veni Markovski, who ran an Internet service provider in Bulgaria and is the representative to Russia from ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names.
Push for global ratification Secretary-General Ban said the world was moving in the right direction to protect children affected by armed conflict.
Brussels' aspirations for what the bilateral relationship might yield are ambitious; preferential and long-term access to Russia's vast reserves of oil and gas, general trade preferences, Russia's ratification of the Kyoto climate change pact, a sweeping cleanup of Russia?s nuclear waste and cooperation from Moscow to fight trans-border organised crime and human trafficking.
What all this actually yields in the way of a legitimate assignment of resources to individuals is a matter of the distributive principles that survive the test of ratification by the general will.
The Treaty shall come into force for the ratifying States 15 days after the receipt by the Secretariat-General of the instruments of ratification from at least four States.
And, most importantly, only governments can institute measures to end the culture of impunity, beginning with the extension of legal protection to UN staff in humanitarian operations, as the Secretary-General has asked - and ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, under which attacks on humanitarian workers could be considered a war crime.
