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Another potentially important consequence of the peace might have been that a number of provisions of the Treaty of The Hague, that had been conditional on a peace, like the reduction of the French army of occupation, would now have become operational.
* William Hague, portrayed as a squat figure ( sometimes a schoolboy ) with a very bulbous head like a light bulb or the Mekon.
UNPO chose for its founding headquarters in 1991 The Hague in the Netherlands because the city aimed at becoming the International City of Peace and Justice and hosts internaitonal courts like the ICJ and ICC.
The majority of the Jewish traders moved to cities like Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam.
In addition, the Nuremberg War Trial judgment on " The Law Relating to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity " held, under the guidelines Nuremberg Principles, that treaties like the Hague Convention of 1907, having been widely accepted by " all civilised nations " for about half a century, were by then part of the customary laws of war and binding on all parties whether the party was a signatory to the specific treaty or not.
Other tourist destinations in the Netherlands are cities like the royal seat, The Hague, with its city centre, beaches and Madurodam ( miniature city ).
After William Hague ruled out Britain joining the euro under a Conservative government, former cabinet minister Ian Gilmour said he would vote for the PECP, and four former Conservative MPs-Julian Critchley, Nicholas Scott, David Knox, Robert Hicks-and four former MEPs-Margaret Daly, Adam Fergusson, Madron Seligman and Anthony Simpson-wrote in a letter to The Times that " We would have wished that William Hague's party had put forward a manifesto more like that of the Pro Euro Conservative Party.
In 1997, when William Hague promised to " bring Unity to the Party ", the front cover showed Parkinson adding " she sounds like a splendid girl ".
Though Hague, like other political bosses of the time, was not above outright fraud at the polls, the keys to Hague's success were his matchless organizational skills and demand for complete loyalty from his subordinates.
He led the effort to implement a new constitution, which streamlined state government and made it less vulnerable to control by locally-based bosses like Hague.
Hague then sacked Lord Cranborne, who accepted his error, saying that he had " rushed in, like an ill-trained spaniel ".
There are various smaller ports and airports in the Randstad, like the ports of IJmuiden, Amsterdam and Dordrecht, as well as Rotterdam-The Hague airport.
Cities like Amsterdam, Haarlem and The Hague also became popular subjects for paintings.
But like fellow progressive Alfred Hayes, Jr., William Gardner Hale viewed the American role as supporting the internationalist and multilateral position represented by the Hague Conventions.
Coertse has sung in theatres at Aix-en-Provence, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Covent Garden, Düsseldorf, Glyndebourne, Graz, Hamburg, Linz, London, Melk, Naples, Palermo, Salzburg, Stuttgart, The Hague, Turin and Wiesbaden and with conductors like Karl Böhm, Vittorio Gui, Alberto Erede, Heinrich Hollreiser, Herbert von Karajan, Joseph Keilberth, Jascha Horenstein, Rudolf Kempe, Josef Krips, Rafael Kubelík, Erich Leinsdorf, Wilhelm Loibner, Lorin Maazel, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Edouard van Remoortel, Rudolf Moralt, Heinz Wallberg, Nello Santi, Giuseppe Patane, John Pritchard, Argeo Quadri, Mario Rossi, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Hermann Scherchen, Georg Solti, Hans Swarowsky, Horst Stein, George Szell, Silvio Varviso, Antonino Votto and Berislav Klobučar.
The project will endorse and support the efforts to bring national authorities and warmakers to national courts ( like the complaints filed in various state courts under the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction ) and to international courts ( like the International Criminal Court in the Hague ).
A country like Guatemala, which has had a plethora of child trafficking, prostitution and many orphans, are now temporarily closed to adoptions after the country's ratification of the Hague Convention.
Some of his portraits are life-size, but the artist generally preferred to keep them on a considerably smaller scale, like the famous Four Amsterdam burgomasters assembled to receive Marie de Medici in 1638, now on display at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.
Seeking support for his vision, he got the opportunity to address a greater audience during the Hague Appeal 1999 in the Netherlands and explain what nonviolent intervention by trained teams could be like.
Cornelis van Bijnkershoek ( a. k. a. Cornelius van Bynkershoek ) ( 29 May 1673, Middelburg – 16 April 1743, The Hague ) was a Dutch jurist and legal theorist who contributed to the development of international law in works like De Dominio Maris Dissertatio ( 1702 ); Observationes Juris Romani ( 1710 ), of which a continuation in four books appeared in 1733 ; the treatise De foro legatorum ( 1721 ); and the Quaestiones Juris Publici ( 1737 ).
For example, since the United Kingdom ( like the USA ) signed the original Hague Convention in 1954 but did not signed either the First Protocol of 1954 or the Second Protocol of 1999, the UK government has announced that following the May 2004 announcement that the Britain will adopt all three.

Hague and all
No man could have reached his spot nor held it without being ruthless, and Hague had made a virtue of ruthlessness all of his life.
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
Documents which have been notarized by a notary public, and certain other documents, and then certified with a conformant apostille are accepted for legal use in all the nations that have signed the Hague Convention.
Countries agreed to settle all possible disputes at International Court of Justice in Hague.
The Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe after World War II in response to a call issued by Europeans from all walks of life who had gathered at the Hague Congress ( 1948 ).
Government ministries and public institutions are almost all located in The Hague.
He brought together all he had maintained in his Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem ( A Finishing Touch to the Hague Conference )— his major book.
Fatmir Limaj, one of the senior commanders of the KLA, was also tried at The Hague, and was acquitted of all charges in November 2005.
As part of the UK's response to this incident the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, announced on 30 November 2011 that the United Kingdom had shut the embassy in Tehran and recalled all diplomatic staff.
Caistor-by-Norwich, Chelmsford and Forum Hadriani ( present day Voorburg ) ( the civitas of the Canninefates near The Hague ) were all fortified c. 200, and the Romans began a defensive system of protection especially along the coasts of Britain and the Continent.
Established in 2008 in The Hague, the Assemblée des francophones fonctionnaires des organisations internationales ( AFFOI ) ( Official Website ) gathers international civil servants from all international organisations of the world-such as United Nations, the European Commission ot the African Union-and coming from the member countries of the Francophonie.
* A massive demonstration in The Hague ( 1983 ) against the planned installation in the Netherlands of nuclear-armed US cruise missiles ( which was cancelled after all due to arms reduction talks between the US and the Soviet Union )
Notwithstanding all this turmoil – and his declining health – Marlborough returned to The Hague in late February to prepare for what was to be his last campaign, and one of his greatest.
The middle third of the book is centered around a skating journey by a group of Hans ' friends from their home village of Broek to The Hague and back and all the sights they see, told mostly from the point of view of one of them, the English Ben Dobbs who has been visiting his Dutch cousin Jacob Poot.
The NS covers most of the country, with almost all cities connected, mostly with a service frequency of two trains an hour or more ( and at least four trains per hour between all of the largest 5 cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven as well as some larger cities: Nijmegen, Amersfoort, Arnhem ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Dordrecht and Leiden ).
Later postings took him all over the world, from New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, and Beirut ( during the 1958 Civil War ) to The Hague.
William served as General Stadtholder of all the Netherlands until his death in 1751 at The Hague.
* Netherlands: Amsterdam is the constitutional national capital even though the Dutch government, parliament, supreme court, and the residential and work palace of the queen are all located in The Hague.
Anne became a general favorite with all the people she met either at The Hague or at the Princess of Orange's country house at Teyling.
The last activity of Lafargue as a Spanish activist was to represent this Marxist minority group in the 1872 Hague Congress which marked the end of First International as a united group of all communists.
The Court of Appeal in The Hague acquitted him March 10, 2008 of all charges and sharply criticized the work of the prosecution.

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