He says he will work with world leaders to reach a legally binding treaty in the coming months.

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But the agreement, known as the Copenhagen Accord, is not legally binding.

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The ruling is non-binding; it does not have legal force.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

"There is nothing binding in the Rome Statute on non-signatories to apprehend someone against whom there is an arrest warrant.

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The two Asian giants are reluctant,however, of being put into any binding position that could slow their rapidly growing economies.

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The goal was to reach a legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for heating up the atmosphere.

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The non-binding resolution expresses "very serious concern" at continuing reports of "systematic,widespread and grave violations of civil, political,economic,social and cultural rights,"

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It is the only developed country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is still resisting a legally binding international deal.

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Initial expectations for Copenhagen have been scaled back to try to reach political agreement on a framework, with a detailed, binding treaty to follow.

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The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding treaty agreed to by 37 countries in 1997.

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The non-binding resolution in the House Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that President Barak Obama recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

India's stance, going into the Copenhagen summit, which begins December 6, is that poorer nations should be exempt from legally binding caps on carbon emissions.

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Before returning to the talks they said developed nations are trying to sideline the Kyoto Protocol a legally binding deal that set reduction targets for 2012.

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Kyoto expires in 2012. But many say a political framework is more likely at Copenhagen, with a binding accord to be worked out possibly next year.

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