Yeltsin's parliamentary representative, Alexander Kotenkov, has called the move illegal, saying many lawmakers voted for their absent colleagues, and threatened that Yeltsin might appeal the draft code in court.
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Amnesty International, Oxfam, Safer World and another arms control pressure group, BASIC, said in a statement that the draft code was based on new British criteria which were not tough enough.
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The final Draft Code was used as inspiration for the Rome Statute at the United Nations United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome.
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In a private meeting held late Friday between Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar and his Philippine counterpart, Domingo Siazon, the two spoke at length about the draft code of conduct, the official said.
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The draft code scraps the phrase " the head of the marriage union is the man, " giving women the right to have a say in decisions concerning the children or the family home.
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Malaysia opposes a draft code of conduct aimed at governing behavior in the disputed Spratly Islands and is pushing for Southeast Asian ministers to defer talks on the topic until later this year, a Malaysian official said Saturday.
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"Like the other countries that attended the Paris meeting, the United States welcomes the European Union's offer to hold a follow-up meeting on the draft code, " the statement said.
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The draft code of the mouse is about 90 percent completed, and there are no current plans to finish mapping the rest of the genome, Gibbs said during a news conference Wednesday announcing the rat genome achievement.
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The draft code of the rat is about 90 percent completed, and there are no current plans to finish mapping the rest of the genome, Gibbs said during a news conference Wednesday announcing the rat genome achievement.
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The draft code would also remove a longstanding provision that obligates landowners to replant deforested areas along riverbanks, allow them to replace some virgin forest with nonnative, commercially attractive species like eucalyptus, and redefine what constitutes jungle.
