It is authorized to prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the internationally accepted rules of war, but only when national courts fail to do so.
They say it would be based on the "internationally accepted principle of residence".
But supporters here say the agreement represents a new, irrevocable commitment by Vietnam to open the country to global markets and to play by internationally accepted trade rules.
Focusing on the fact that Australia's actual greenhouse emissions are set to increase by 2020 is "one of the oddest and strangest and I've got to say... desperate arguments", says the environment minister, Greg Hunt, because under internationally accepted accounting rules Australia is allowed to claim a 5% decrease.
"These military strikes against Assad's arsenal send a clear signal that the United States will stand up for internationally accepted norms and rules against the use of chemical weapons," Cardin said.
Similarly, methodologists working internationally have established generally accepted rules for detecting systematic bias in primary studies, as well as for grading the quality and strength of the evidence reported in them.
Station model plots use an internationally accepted coding convention that has changed little since August 1 , 1941
For more than 30 years, as a statesman and diplomat, I have worked to bring nations together and encouraged all sides to play by the rules by adhering to basic internationally accepted values, such as respecting the rule of law.
We have seen a brand of this bluster and bending of rules in the face of internationally accepted laws not too long ago, rules that were discarded when it came to water boarding, rendition, military internment, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and indiscriminate bombing conveniently disguised under that ugly war word -- collateral damage!
A set of basic and accepted rules-of-the-road protects our physical highways and traffic, and we have to have similar, internationally recognized rules for the information highway.
