:For the purposes of the present Convention, a peremptory norm of general international law is a norm accepted and recognised by the international community of States as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character.
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However, an expert commission set up by the 44-nation Council of Europe, a watchdog body to which Liechtenstein belongs, has studied the prince's proposal and calls it " a serious step backward " that could " lead to the isolation of Liechtenstein within the European community of states ."
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"' Rice Army Air Field "'( also known as "'Rice Air Base "'or "'Rice AAF "') is an abandoned World War II airfield in Rice Valley of the southern Mojave Desert, located east-southeast of the community of State Route 62.
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"The unlimited solidarity which the United States of America has experienced from the international community of states and peoples, and our common struggle against terrorism, are encouraging signals which demonstrate that we will not allow ourselves to be divided from one another, " he said on the 12th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The "'coat of arms of the Estonian SSR "'was adopted in 1940 by the government of the Estonian SSR . It features a sunrise accented by sunbeams, the hammer and sickle for the victory of communism and the " world-wide socialist community of states ", and the red star to represent the affiliation to communism.
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Walter Lippmann believes that, " the true constituent members of the international order of the future are communities of states . " E . H . Carr shares Lippmann view about the rise of regionalism and regional arrangements and commented that, " the concept of sovereignty is likely to become in the future even more blurred and indistinct than it is at present ."
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It shows wheat as the symbol of agriculture, a rising sun for the " future of the Russian nation ", the red star ( the RSFSR was the last Soviet Republic to include the star in its state emblem, in 1978 ) as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of Communism and the " world-wide socialist community of states ".
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The Movement organized the 150th anniversary commemoration of the battle between the 23 and 27 June 2009 . The Presidency of the European Union adopted a declaration on the occasion stating that " This battle was also the grounds on which the international community of States has developed and adopted instruments of International Humanitarian Law, the international law rules relevant in times of armed conflict, in particular the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the 60th anniversary of which will be celebrated this year ."
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Also, regarding " regional " treaties prohibiting resource, namely those of Tlatelolco ( Latin America ) and Rarotonga ( South Pacific ) the Court notes that while those " testify to a growing awareness of the need to liberate the community of States and the international public from the dangers resulting from the existence of nuclear weapons ", " [ i ] t [ i . e . the Court ] does not, however, view these elements as amounting to a comprehensive and universal conventional prohibition on the use, or the threat of use, of those weapons as such . " ( paragraph 63 ).