Lao PDR, as a Party to the Convention, is expected to present by 30 of April 2012 a periodic report on the policies and measures taken within its territory and at the international level to protect and promote the diversity of cultural expressions.
United States because the United States is not a party to the Convention.
The 1978 Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties does not bind the United States because the United States is not a party to the Convention.
At this first meeting, they will tackle the question of collaboration with non-governmental organizations whose activities are linked to protecting underwater heritage and sharing information between States party to the Convention.
As a state that is party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has undertaken not to execute child offenders.
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Furthermore, UNESCO was a driving force behind the 1995 adoption of the UNIDROIT Convention on stolen or illicitly exported cultural property, which aims at harmonizing private law in the 15 States party to the Convention today.
They must choose from a list of "experts" to which every state party to the convention -- not just China and Russia but other unfriendly nations such as Cuba and Burma -- can contribute.
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Of the ten states that make up the coalition involved in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Qatar, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States of America) eight are party to the Convention (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Qatar, Spain and the United States of America).
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
What the Justice Department's 1996 memorandum on this issue fails to point out is that neither the United States, the Soviet Union nor Russia is a party to this 1978 convention--and that in fact 90 percent of the world's states have also refused to sign it.
But the plaintiffs in the lawsuit argued that the Florida Reform Party no longer met a requirement that it be affiliated with a national party holding a national convention to nominate presidential candidates because the Reform Party USA -- the remnants of a movement spearheaded by Ross Perot in 1992 -- no longer met that definition.
Primaries and caucuses will be held in every US state over the next few months to pick a Republican nominee before the eventual winner is anointed at the party convention in August to take on Democratic President Barack Obama in November.
As a State Party to the World Heritage Convention, Palestine can submit nominations of sites for inscription on the World Heritage List.
Kazakhstan, the latest State Party to ratify the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, is host of the first workshop.
Having come to power through a party convention rather than a popular vote, he is under pressure to confirm his mandate in a general election.
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With nearly four months to go until his party's convention, Bush looks poised once again to regain some of the inevitability that caused donors last year to endorse his candidacy with record amounts of money.
Richard Lugar and Orrin Hatch -- both stalwarts of the GOP who have committed apostasy by trying to work across party lines -- face primaries this season that imperil their survival: A poll Thursday morning found Lugar down 5 points to a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana, and Hatch failed to secure a 60% supermajority at his party's convention in Utah, sending his race to a primary.
In 1976, the year he was elected to the Senate, he was close to the hawkish wing of the Democratic Party he went to the Convention as a delegate for Henry (Scoop) Jackson but he built his own nest in the aviary.
To add to the union's leverage, the Democratic Party's national convention is due to take place in Los Angeles in August.
As the race progressed superdelegates, made up of prominent party members who are free to vote their preference at the party convention, became the most important votes in the nomination process.
Unlike Australia, it is not a party to the United Nations Refugee Convention.
Nonetheless, McCain's surprise announcement will bring viewers to his party's convention in St.
The winner of each will receive a trip to their party's convention.
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The Party convention that was to take place in January 2011 was aborted when Cuban security forces entered the room arresting party members and participants.
The party penalized both states by refusing to seat their delegates at the party's convention in August.
Nearly 5, 000 members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, also known as the PRI, voted unanimously at their national convention to remove language in the party's platform that for years had opposed injecting private money in the sector.
To see George W. Bush at the Republican convention call upon his party and class to welcome those different from themselves was exactlywhat Baltzell would have hoped for.
The protocol specifies that if a State Party to the Protocol considers that another State Party is not giving effect to a provision of the Convention, it may, by written communication, bring the matter to the attention of that State.
But he is running far behind McCain in delegates to the party's nominating convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota, late this summer.
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