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GLOBAL SURVEY Vol. 52 No. 527 January 2022
TITLES OF SELECTED TREATIES, AGREEMENTS,
DECLARATIONS,
AND STATEMENTS
(Date of Signing)
12th Revised Edition
African Charter on
Democracy, Elections and Governance, 15 February 2012, African Union (AU)
African
Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Zone (Treaty of Pelindaba),
11 April 1996.
Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control (Florence
Agreement), 1996
Amazon Cooperation Treaty 3
July 1978.
Antarctic Treaty 1 December
1959.
Arab Charter on Human
Rights, 22 May 2004, League of Arab States.
Central American Free Trade
Agreement (CAFTA), 1 March 2006.
Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) 10 September 1996, UN General Assembly.
Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime
Navigation (SUA Convention), 1988.
Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public
Officials in International Business Transactions (Anti-Bribery Convention), 15
February 1999, OECD.
Convention
on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and Nuclear Facilities, 1980.
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 ('Inhumane Weapons' Convention/CCW
Convention), 1981.
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide
Convention), 1948.
Convention
on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of
Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction
(Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention/BTWC), 10 April 1972.
Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention/CWC), 13 January
1993.
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any
Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (Enmod
Convention), 1977.
Convention on the
Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel
Mines (APM) and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention), 3-4 December 1997 and
5 December 1997.
Cotonou Agreement 23 June 2000,
succeeding Lomé Agreement which expired on 29 February 2000.
Cuban
Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act of 1996 (Helms-Burton Act) (US legislation).
Dayton Accord 14 December
1995.
Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 13 September 2007, UN General Assembly.
Desertification Convention:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries
Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14
December 1994.
ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms, Light Weapons, their Ammunition and
Other Related Materials, 2006
European Social Charter, 3
May 1996, Council of Europe.
European Union:
Treaty of Paris [establishing the
European Coal and Steel Community or ECSC], 18 April 1951.
Treaties of Rome [establishing the European Economic Community or
EEC and the European Atomic
Energy Community or EURATOM], 25 March 1957.
Maastricht Treaty, 7 February 1992, European Community (EC).
Amsterdam
Treaty: Treaty of Amsterdam, 17 June 1997, European Union.
Nice
Treaty, 9 December 2000, European Union (EU).
Treaty of Lisbon, 13 December 2007,
European Union (EU).
European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Treaty, 2 February
2012.
Geneva Convention (III) Relative
to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 12 August 1949 and 8 June 1977.
Geneva Convention (IV)
Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 21 October 1950.
Protocol I Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and Relating to
the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 1977
Protocol
II Additional to the 1949
Geneva Conventions, and Relating to the Protection of
Victims
of Non-International Armed Conflicts, 1977
Geneva Protocol for the
Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and
the Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 1925.
General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 30 October 1947 (incorporated in the World Trade
Organization on 1 January 1995).
Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in
Firearms,
Ammunition, Explosives, and
Other Related Materials, 1997
Inter-American Convention on Transparency in
Conventional Weapons Acquisitions, 1999.
Inter-American Treaty of
Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), 2 September 1947.
Inter-American Treaty of
Reciprocal Assistance Between the United States of
America and other American Republics (Rio Treaty), 2 September 1947.
Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), 14 July 2015 (To safeguard peaceful Iranian nuclear program).
Minsk II Agreements, 12
February 2015.
Minsk (I) Protocol, 5
September 2014.
Montreal
Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer 16 September 1987.
Nile
Basin Treaty of 1929.
North Atlantic Treaty, 4
April 1949.
Oslo Accord, August 1993,
Israel, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Declaration of Principles (DOP), 13 September 1993, Israel,
Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO).
Pacific
Island Countries’ Trade Agreement (PICTA) of 2002.
Paris Agreements on the
Western European Union (WEU), 23 October 1954.
River Plate Basin Treaty,
23 April 1969.
Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (ICC), 17 July 1998.
South Pacific Nuclear Free
Zone Treaty (Treaty of Rarotonga), 6 August 1985.
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space
and Under Water (Partial Test-Ban Treaty/PTBT), 1963
Treaty for Collaboration in
Economic Social and Cultural Matters and for Collective Self-Defense (Brussels
Treaty), 17 March 1948
Treaty for the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons in Central Asia (Treaty of Tashkent), 9 February 2005.
Treaty for the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlateloco), 14 February 1967.
Treaty of Peace with Japan (San Francisco Peace
Treaty), 8
September 1951, Allied Powers and Japan.
Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE Treaty), 19 November 1990.
Treaty on Nuclear
Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia (Treaty of Semipalatinsk), 8 September 2006.
Treaty on the Elimination
of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles Treaty (INF Treaty), 8
December 1987.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, adopted
on 7 July 2017, open for signature starting on 20 September 2017.
Treaty on
the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and other Weapons of Mass
Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil thereof
(Seabed Treaty), 1971.
Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of
States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other
Celestial Bodies (Outer Space Treaty), 1967.
Treaty on the Eurasian
Economic Union, 29 May 2014.
Treaty on the Limitation of
Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems between the United States and the USSR (ABM
Treaty), 26 May 1972.
Treaty
on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests (Threshold Test-Ban
Treaty/ TTBT), 1974
Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty/NPT), 1 July
1968.
Treaty on
the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I Treaty), 31
July 1991, USA and USSR.
Treaty on
Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II Treaty),
3 January 1993, Russia and USA.
Treaty on Open Skies, 24
March 1992.
Treaty on
Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT Treaty), 24 May 2002, USA and Russian Federation.
Treaty on the Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START III Treaty [New START Treaty], 5
February 2011, Russia and USA
Treaty on the Southeast
Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (Treaty of Bangkok/SEANWFZ), 15 December 1995.
Treaty on
Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (Peaceful Nuclear
Explosions Treaty/PNET), 1976.
UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),
2 April 2013.
UN Charter: Charter of the
United Nations, 26 June 1945.
UN Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC Convention), 29 September 2003.
Protocol
against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, 12 December 2000.
UN Convention against
Corruption, 9 December 2003.
UN Convention against
Torture (UNCAT), 10 December 1984.
UN Convention for the Protection
of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances, 6 February 2007.
UN Convention on Biological
Diversity 5 June 1992.
UN Convention on Cluster
Munitions (CCM), 3 December 2008.
UN Convention on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Weapons Which May be Deemed
to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects, 10 October 1980.
UN Convention on the Law of
the Sea (Law of the Sea/LOS), 10 December 1982.
UN Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), 9
December 1948.
UN Convention on the
Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel
Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention/APM), 3-5 December 1997.
UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (Framework Convention on Climate Change/ FCCC), 9 May 1992.
Kyoto
Protocol to the FCCC, 11 December 1997, United Nations.
UN International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 16 December 1966.
UN International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 16 December 1967.
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, 20 December 1948, UN General Assembly.
Vienna Documents 1990, 1992
and 1994 on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, 28 November 1994.
Wassenaar Arrangement on
Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, 12
July 1996.
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(Replacing Titles of Selected Treaties, Agreemenmts, Declarations, and Statements, Global Survey
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