contracting party

基本解释

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.
成为缔约方的任何国家自其批准文书（或具有同等效应的文书）交存于联合国总部之日后第90天起将受条约的约束。
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.
中国恢复关贸总协定缔约国地位和加入世贸组织已经走过了15年历程。
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Neither Contracting Party shall be responsible for any agreement between the above mentioned organizations.
但对上述合作组织间的契约，双方均不承担责任。
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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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