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1
accession (
)

2 accord
3 act of the state
4 additional provision
5
adherence (
)

6 adjacent state ()
7 adoption of the text of the treaty
8 aequo et bono
9 agenda
10
Agreement for the Implementation of the
Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to
the Conservation and Management of Straddling
Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
19821210

11 agreements
12 air space
13 aircraft
14 amendment
15 anadromous stocks
16 annex
17 apogee
18 application
19 approval
20 arbitral awards
21 Arbitral Tribunal
22 arbitration
23 archipelago
24 armistice
25 arms talk
26 arrest
27 artificial islands
28 asset
29 authentic text
30 avoidance of double taxation agreement
31 award
32
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary
Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their

33 baseline
34 bilateral treaty
35 body corporate; legal person
36 border river

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37 boundary rgimes
38 capacity to conclude treaty
39 capture
40 catadromous species
41 cause of action
42 celestial body
43 certified copy
44 chart
45 charter
46 clausula rebus sic stantibus
47 coast
48 coast line
49 coastal state
50 codification
51 collision
52 commitment
53 communique
54 compensation
55 competent authority
56 compromisory agreement; compromis
57 compulsory jurisdiction
58 confiscation
59 conformity
60 conservation measures
61 conservation of the living resources of the high seas
62 constituent instrument
63 constitutional processes
64 continental shelf
65 contraband
66 contracting state
67 convention
68
Convention against Torture and other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

69
Convention Concerning Equal Remuneration for
Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value

70
Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts
Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Sabotage)

71
Convention for the Territorial Sea and the
Contiguous Zone

72
Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules
Relating to International Transportation by Air

73 Convention on Biological Diversity

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74
Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the
Conflict of Nationality Law

75 Convention on Consular Relations
76 Convention on Diplomatic Relations
77
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the
Living Resources of the High Seas

78
Convention on International Liability for Damages
Caused by Space Objects

79
Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts
Committed on Board Aircraft

80
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May
Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have
Indiscriminate Effects (and Protocols

81
Convention on Registration of Objects Launched
into Outer Space

82 Convention on Special Mission
83 Convention on the Continental Shelf
84
Convention on the Elimination of All forms of
Discrimination against Women

85 Convention on the High Seas
86 Convention on the Nationality of Married Women
87 Convention on the Political Rights of Women
88
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons,
including Diplomatic Agents

89
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the
United Nations

90
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any
other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification

91
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of
Foreign Arbitral Awards
()

92 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
93 Convention on the Rights of the Child
94
Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure
of Aircraft (Hijacking)

95 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
96 copyright
97 counter-claim
98 covenant
99 crime against humanity
100 cultural pact
101 de facto recognition
102 de jure recognition

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103 declaration
104 Declaration by the United Nations
105
Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation
Among States in Accordance with the Charter of
the United Nations

106 Declaration on Territorial Asylum

107 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against
108
Declaration on the Establishment of a New
International Economic Order

109
Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of
Nuclear and Thermo-Nuclear Weapons

110
Declaration on the Promotion among Youth of the
Ideals of Peace, Mutual Respect and Understanding
between People

111
Declaration on the Protection of Women and
Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict

112 default judgment
113 defaulting state
114 deliberation
115
delimitation of the territorial sea between states
with opposite or adjacent coasts

116 denunciation
117 deposit
118 depository
119 discharge
120 dissenting opinion
121 domestic jurisdiction
122 domestic law
123 dossier
124 double veto
125 draw up
126 due diligence
127 economic pact
128 emissions
129 enclosed sea
130 entente
131 entity
132 equally authentic
133 exchange of letters
134 exchange of notes
135 exclusive jurisdiction
136 exemption
137 existing treaty

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138 exoneration
139 expiration ()
140 exploration and use of outer space
141 ex-situ conservation
142 extradition treaty
143 extraterrestrial matter
144 extraterritoriality
145 final act
146 fishing accord
147 flag state
148 force majeure
149 fraud
150 freedom of the high seas
151 general average
152 general direction of the coast
153 general obligation
154 general participation clause (all participation
155 general principles of law
156 general rule
157 geographical demarcation
158 good faith
159 government ship
160 habitual residence
161 harmful agents
162 Havana Charter
163 hazardous waste
164 high contracting power
165 high seas
166 high tide
167 highly migratory fish
168 highly migratory species
169 historical title
170 historical waters
171 (right ofhot pursuit ()
172 illegal act
173 impairment
174 implied consent
175 in duplicate
176 in triplicate
177 indemnification ()
178 indentation
179 initialing
180 innocent passage

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181 in-situ conservation
182 instrument of ratification
183 inter se
184 intergovernmental agreement
185 intergovernmental organization
186 internal law
187 internal waters
188 International Convention Against the Taking of
189
International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights

190
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and
Cultural Rights

191 international law
192 interpretation
193 invalidity
194 invoke
195 ipso facto
196 joint communique
197 joint declaration
198 joint statement
199 judgment
200 juristic person
201 jus cogens
202 jus sanguinis
203 jus soli
204 justiciable dispute
205
Kyoto Protocol (to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change)
(
)

206 land territory
207 land-locked states
208 lapse
209 large-scale charts
210 launching state
211 laws of humanity
212 laws of treaties
213 legal capacity
214 legal effect
215 liability
216 (rule of) local remedies
217 low-tide
218 low-tide elevation
219 low-water line
220 low-water mark

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221 marine mammals
222 maritime casualties
223 mark
224 measurement
225 median line
226 method of straight baselines joining appropriate
227 mines
228 minimum standard of international law
229 miscellaneous provisions
230 modus vivendi
231
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the
Ozone Layer

232 mouth of river
233 movable property
234 multilateral treaty
235 mutatis mutandis
236 mutual defense treaty
237 narcotic drug
238 national judge
239 negative vote
240 non bis in idem
241 non-aggression treaty
242 non-compliance
243 non-justiciable disputes
244 non-retroactivity
245 non-self-governing territory
246 normal baseline
247 obligation
248 observances (of treaties) ()
249 optional clause
250
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights

251 outer limits of the territorial sea
252 ownership
253 ozone layer
254 pacta sunt servanda (principle ()
255
pacta tertiis nec nocent nec prosunt

256 particular baseline
257 party
258 passage
259 patent
260 peace treaty

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261 penal law
262 peremptory norm of general international law
263 perigee
264 Permanent Court of Arbitration ()
265 petition
266 piracy ()
267 pirate
268 port state
269 preamble
270 precedence
271 predecessor state
272 prejudice
273 preliminary objection
274 prescription
275 prima facie
276 prize
277 proceedings
278 process-verbal
279 proliferation
280 prolongation ()
281 protocol
282 provision
283 provisional application
284 proviso
285 quantitative restrictions
286 ratification
287 ratification of the treaty
288 ratify the treaty
289 reefs
290 regulation
291 reparation
292 requisition
293 res judicata
294 res nullius
295 resolution
296 restitution
297 revision treaty
298 right of passage
299 right of visit
300 right to vote
301 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
302 roadstead
303 royalty

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304 salvage
305 schedules of concessions
306 seabed
307
Sea-bed Disputes Chamber of the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

308 sedentary species
309 semi-enclosed sea
310 set off
311 ship
312 sign the treaty
313 signatory/signatory state ()
314 signature ad referendum
315 sovereign immunity
316 space object
317 space vehicle
318 state of registry
319 state of the forum
320 state party; party
321 state responsibilities
322 state succession; succession of states
323 states bordering strait
324 Statute of the International Court of J ustice
325 statutory limitations
326 straddling fish
327 straight baseline
328 subject
329 submarine areas
330 submarine cables and pipelines
331 subrogation
332 succession
333 successor state
334 summary procedure
335 supplementary provision
336 suzerainty
337 tariff
338 tariff barrier/tariff wall
339 tariff protection
340 tariff treaty
341 tax convention
342 tax credit
343 termination
344 territorial sea
345 territorial waters

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346 territory
347 text of treaty
348 thalweg
349 third state
350 tort
351 total nuclear disarmament
352 trade liberalization
353 trade partner
354 trade policy
355 trade volume
356 trading block
357 treaty
358 treaty obligations
359 treaty of amity and commerce
360 Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear
361 ultimatum
362 ultra vires
363 unanimity
364 undue delay
365 unilateral denunciation
366
United Nations Conference on Diplomatic
Intercourse and Immunities

367
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development

368
United Nations Conference on International
Organization at San Francisco

369 United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
370
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods

371
United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of
All Forms of Racial Discrimination

372
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change

373 uniting and separation of states
374 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
375 uti possidetis
376 valid ()
377 verbal agreement
378 veto
379 veto power
380 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone
381 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
382
Vienna Convention on Succession of States in
Respect of Treaties

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383 vis major; force majeure
384 visit and search
385 visual or auditory signal to stop
386 void
387 voyage
388 waiver
389 Warsaw Convention ()
390 watershed
391
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC)

392 willful misconduct
393 withdrawal
394 World Charter for Nature
395 written proceedings