Words matter. These are the best International Law Quotes from famous people such as Benigno Aquino III, Ksenia Sobchak, Naoto Kan, Ludwig Quidde, Alfred Marshall, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
China itself has said repeatedly that they will and have been conforming to international law.
According to international law, Crimea is Ukraine’s. Period.
In fact, the Senkaku Islands are… inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Reading international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London was a wonderful experience. With its incredibly diverse student population, I began to immerse myself in the ways social, legal and political forces contribute to human rights and freedoms.
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.
Britain must be the champion of international law.
If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.
I don’t need a U.N. report to tell me whether my army… operates according to the international law guidelines.
The young, the old, women, the disabled, the sick and the wounded are entitled to protection under international law. Too often, the ICRC’s calls for those laws to be respected are ignored.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law.
In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly authorising it.
My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.
In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn’t take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn’t belong to anyone.
Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn’t possess nuclear arms.
The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
What we are doing in the Pacific is we’re flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.
We believe that unilateral sanctions violate international law, in fact. They violate free trade. They violate human growth and development, human development, and that when you actually sanction a bank of a country, the meaning of it is quite clear. You’re sanctioning medicine for the people.
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
Our first object is… the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
