contracting party

基本解釋

Any State that becomes a Contracting Party will be bound by the Treaty 90 days following the deposit of its instrument of ratification (or equivalent) in the United Nations Headquarters.
成為締約方的任何國家自其批準文書（或具有同等效應的文書）交存于聯(lián)合國總部之日后第90天起將受條約的約束。
China has gone through a journey of 15 years in order to first resume the contracting party status in GATT and later to enter the WTO.
中國恢復關貿總協(xié)定締約國地位和加入世貿組織已經(jīng)走過了15年歷程。
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Neither Contracting Party shall be responsible for any agreement between the above mentioned organizations.
但對上述合作組織間的契約，雙方均不承擔責任。
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According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
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