INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS|international affairs|international agreement · INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS|international affairs|international instrument · LAW
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- Definition formally executed writing that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right under international law, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement Reference "COM-EN, based on:Wikipedia > Legal instrument, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_instrument [25.11.2009]"
- Comment "An international legal instrument may be:- a treaty [ IATE:49472 ], as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of Treaties ( http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/un.law.of.treaties.convention.1969/portrait.pdf ), i.e. an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation (e.g. treaty, convention, charter, covenant, agreement, protocol, or exchange of notes);- an international agreement contracted between States and other subjects of international law or between such subjects of international law (cf. Article 3 of the abovementioned Treaty);- a legal instrument adopted by a body set up by a treaty."