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noun
- 1. a formally concluded and ratified agreement between states: "the two Presidents signed a ten-year treaty of solidarity"
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4 days ago · A treaty is defined in Article 2 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) as "an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation".
5 days ago · Treaty can be understood as a legally binding settlement or agreement involving two or more parties, nations, groups, organisations or interests. Treaty is reached after a process of negotiation and not merely consultation. Consultation can be understood as a one-way process.
3 days ago · North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), military alliance established in 1949 that sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. Following the end of the Cold War , NATO was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization.
4 days ago · A treaty that establishes an international organization is also its constitution, in that it would define how that organization is constituted. Within states , a constitution defines the principles upon which the state is based, the procedure in which laws are made and by whom.
5 days ago · peace treaty. /pis ˌtridi/. /pis ˈtriti/. IPA guide. Other forms: peace treaties. Definitions of peace treaty. noun. a treaty to cease hostilities. synonyms: pacification, peace.
Jul 6, 2024 · Peace of Westphalia, European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The Spanish-Dutch treaty was signed on January 30, 1648.
3 days ago · The Maastricht Treaty (formally known as the Treaty on European Union), which was signed on February 7, 1992, created the European Union. The treaty met with substantial resistance in some countries.
4 days ago · The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994, and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada. The NAFTA trade bloc formed one of the largest trade blocs in the world by gross domestic product .
5 days ago · treaty shall, in the exercise of the right to individual or collective self-defence in accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations Organisation, render the state or states so attacked immediate assistance, individually and in agreement with other
4 days ago · An invitation to treat is an invitation to a party or parties to make an offer. However, unlike a contractual offer, there is no intention for the invitation to treat to be legally binding. This is, of course, until the parties take steps to formalise the offer in a binding contract.
