Officials said that Mr. Bolton's statement was also intended to relieve the United States of obligations under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a 1969 agreement that requires states to refrain from taking steps to undermine treaties they sign, even if they do not ratify them.
"The South African Government appeals to all the political leaders in the Kingdom to refrain from any actions that may undermine peace, security, and stability in the country," the statement read.
"The Australian side should adopt an objective and unbiased attitude and refrain from doing anything that undermines regional peace and stability".
So the natural course of action should be to pressure non-signers to sign the agreement and to refrain from any behavior that undermines it.
"Al-Jazeera English – Mr Fahmy's employer when he was arrested – should take positive steps to assist him in his bid for freedom and refrain from taking any action that might undermine his cause," Clooney added elsewhere in the statement.
A State Department spokesman said the United States had "asked both parties to refrain from provocative and unilateral actions" that undermined American efforts to restart peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
"Al-Jazeera English – Mr Fahmy's employer when he was arrested – should take positive steps to assist him in his bid for freedom and refrain from taking any action that might undermine his cause," Clooney said.
It is obliged to refrain from passing any measures that could undermine its fiscal targets; that appears to torpedo vast swathes of its election manifesto, which included all manner of spending pledges.Hardline members of Mr Tsipras's Syriza party will find all of this hard to swallow, as will Greeks who thought they had voted for rupture.
But after Israel's most recent statement, an unnamed senior White House official urged "all parties to refrain from taking unilateral actions that could undermine our ability to make progress, including settlement announcements".
While signing does not commit a State to ratification, it does oblige the State to refrain from acts that would defeat or undermine the treaty's objective and purpose.
