France, he added, "wants to be the first not just to ratify but to implement the agreement".
It is the world's first public health treaty on tobacco control and encourages countries that ratify to develop and implement tobacco control policies, such as bans on direct and indirect tobacco advertising, tobacco tax and price increases, promoting of smoke-free public places and workplaces, and placement of health messages on tobacco packaging.
These documents establish legal obligations among the ratifying countries to implement international rights within their national legal and political systems.
Signing, ratifying and passing legislation to implement an international agreement with effective compliance and enforcement mechanisms demonstrates a longer-term commitment not easily undone following the next election.
"With this critical milestone behind us, we can now move quickly to implement the ratified changes in all of our labor agreements," Glenn F. Tilton, chief executive of United, said yesterday in a written statement.
In another example of unfulfilled promise, he points to a failure to ratify and implement a protocol on a code of justice, creating an African version of the International Criminal Court.
It is time for every government to move swiftly to ratify and implement the Protocol.
One top priority is to encourage governments to ratify and implement the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the first human rights treaty of the 21st century and the first legally binding instrument with comprehensive protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, including children.
UNICEF and Special Olympics work in partnership throughout the world to champion the rights of children with disabilities and to encourage national action to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted in December 2006.
See articleCosta Rica's legislature voted to implement the Central America Free Trade Agreement, ratified by other countries in the region and by the United States.
And if the Withdrawal Agreement is not finalised soon, time to pass the necessary legislation to ratify and implement it will be in short supply.
