So frightening is this weapon that its possession has been globally banned by international agreement.
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Of course, getting an international agreement on minimum anti-laundering standards will not be an easy task.
Until China signs an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions, any pressure to increase is entirely self-imposed.
International agreement on water use will have to come, either by treaty or through a regional body.
By contrast the conference host - Mr Schwarzenegger - sees lack of international agreement as an opportunity.
As boss of Alcoa, Mr O'Neill negotiated an international agreement limiting aluminium production.
He also called for an international agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Critics sound a warning, however, that long delays are likely in reaching an international agreement on a cryptographic security standard.
He said only that "Turkey would play its part" if there was an international agreement to provide havens across the border.
The need for international agreement cannot be used as an excuse to prevent European countries, including the UK, from pressing ahead.
The Montreal Protocol is the international agreement designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out production of Cfc's and halons.
Consider the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement between 181 countries designed to reduce the emissions of gases that cause global warming.
And let us complete an international agreement that has the potential to slow, stop, and eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gases.
The December summit in Denmark is intended to secure a new international agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
We are working for international agreement to extend this to cover other countries which provide export credits for poor countries as well.
And an international agreement is only the first step to emissions cuts.
Britain was furious that Iceland started to cut British trawler nets within the 200 mile zone before an actual international agreement was reached.
Furthermore, they recognise that whilst international agreement enhances the viability of an FTT, several countries have successfully introduced them on a unilateral basis.
Unfortunately, the dissemination of nuclear weapons-relevant technology has been the result of an international agreement meant to prevent it: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
In fact, there is already one international agreement regulating mercury, the United Nations Protocol on Heavy Metals, which entered into force in December 2003.
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The one statement that they've used several times about the use of the cluster bombs that they were fired within the parameters of international agreement.
We could have talked about climate change and the issues that I am still raising about how we can get an international agreement on climate change.
For business, international agreement about biodiversity policies will make it much easier to address biodiversity either as a risk or as an opportunity in their operations.
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In 2002 Germany joined other European nations in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement requiring the EU to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 8% by 2012.
Forty years later, with climate change looming and no strong international agreement in place despite the Copenhagen Climate conference, environmental activists are taking a proactive stance.
But he warns that any proposal for satellite removal requires international agreement because these systems could also be viewed as aggressive developments - as space weapons.
In a stroke of unilateralism the White House announced it wouldn't even try to fix a decade- in-the-making international agreement, the Kyoto Protocol, to address global warming.
He said that the initiative, supported by a range of United Nations bodies and non-governmental organisations including Save the Children, "requires a lot of international agreement and unity".
In 2011 The Arctic Council members signed the Nuuk Declaration that committed them to develop an international agreement on how to respond to oil pollution in the northern seas.
If they are hit in villages, hit in civilian areas, somebody would argue that these bombs themselves become an indiscriminate weapon and therefore they would be banned under certain international agreement.
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