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They signed it.
by struppi 10y ago
They signed it.
- techdragon 10y agoSignatory, Ratified, Implemented. These and other words making up the jargon of diplomacy mean very different things. For example: UNCLOS - "Although the United States helped shape the Convention and its subsequent revisions, and though it signed the 1994 Agreement on Implementation, it has not signed the Convention as it objected to Part XI of the Convention." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_United_... UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: "The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and signed it on 16 February 1995, but has not ratified it" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_th... Basel Convention: "Haiti and the United States have signed the Convention but not ratified it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention
- chinathrow 10y agoThank you for pointing these things out. Additionally, the US wages illegal wars all the time - against the UN charta where only aggression for self defence or with a UN mandate is allowed.