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3 Facta Universitatis, Series: L. & Pol. 1 (2005)

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FACTA   UNIVERSITATIS
Series: Law and Politics Vol. 3, N°1, 2005, pp. 1 - 15





      CONSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCE FOR CONCLUSION
      AND ENACTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES *

                                  UDC 341.42:342.4




                                  Momir Milojevik

                                         Belgrade


     Abstract. Questions of international relations rarely found its place in constitutions
     because  it was considered that the foreign policy represents the freedoms of acting
     which  does not bear legal limitations. However, when the politics was submitted to
     certain legal rules it was considered that it belongs to in the exclusive jurisdiction of a
     state in which other states and international community are not allowed to interfere.
     Today  this standpoint is in a large measure changed, but has not been completely
     abandoned.  Turning point are four French revolutionary Constitutions in which one
     can find provisions about the ratification of international conventions. This example
     was followed by the other state among which Serbia and Yugoslavia. In constitutions
     of European states in XIX and XX century one can notice enough similarities in respect
     of many solutions among which are conclusions of international conventions.
     The widened jurisdiction of republics sets up the question of executions of international
     conventions. Constitutions usually pass or arrange indirectly this question. Therefore
     one should often start from the content of international conventions and obligations the
     state. International law imposes obligations only to a state and makes it responsible for
     the non-fulfillment of international obligations regardless it internal organization.

     Key  words:  International law, constitutional charter, how to conclude international treaty
                  council ofminister, human rights, international treaty implementation,
                  international organization, international treaty conclusion, legal act, national
                  law, legal system, how to ratify international treaty, Vienna convention, head
                  of a state, foreign policy, national assembly, state representation.



                                     I INTRODUCTION

    1. The scope  of the problem

    As principal instruments  of international relations, international treaties have always
been very  relevant to states, of which one finds testimonies dating back to the most distant


Received October 2, 2004
Abridged version of the text published in the Proceedings Constitutional Question in Serbia, Nis 2004, p. 185-231.

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