A multilateral treaty or multilateral agreement is a treaty to which two or more sovereign states are parties. Each party owes the same obligations to all other parties, except to the extent that they have stated reservations . Examples of multilateral treaties include the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees , the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , the Geneva Conventions , and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court .
5-748: The Terrorist Bombings Convention (formally the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings ) is a 1997 United Nations treaty designed to criminalize terrorist bombings. The convention describes terrorist bombings as the unlawful and intentional use of explosives in public places with intention to kill, to injure , or to cause extensive destruction to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing such acts. The convention also seeks to promote police and judicial co-operation to prevent, investigate and punish those acts. As of September 2018,
10-400: Is more limited under a plurilateral treaty. Due to the limited nature of a plurilateral treaty, the full cooperation of the parties to the treaty is required in order for the object of the treaty to be met. As a result, reservations to plurilateral treaties are not allowed without the consent of all other parties to the treaty. This principle is codified in international law by article 20(2) of
15-506: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties : When it appears from the limited number of the negotiating states and the object and purpose of a treaty that the application of the treaty in its entirety between all the parties is an essential condition of the consent of each one to be bound by the treaty, a reservation requires acceptance by all the parties. An example of a plurilateral treaty
20-448: The convention has been ratified by 170 states. Multilateral treaty A bilateral treaty is a treaty between two states. A bilateral treaty may become a multilateral treaty when additional new parties succeed or accede to it. Pope Francis argues in his encyclical letter Fratelli tutti (2020) that "preference should be given to multilateral agreements between states, because, more than bilateral agreements, they guarantee
25-406: The promotion of a truly universal common good and the protection of weaker states. A plurilateral treaty is a special type of multilateral treaty. A plurilateral treaty is a treaty between a limited number of states with a particular interest in the subject of the treaty. The primary difference between a plurilateral treaty and other multilateral treaties is that the availability of reservations
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