Full text of the paper:
Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law, University of Novi Sad
2017, vol. 51, No. 3 – 1, pp. 817–828
Language of the paper: Serbian
Original scientific paper
udk: 341.24:502/504
doi: 10.5937/zrpfns51-16001
Author:
Dragoljub Todić, Ph. D., Professorial Fellow
Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu u Beogradu
dtodic@ymail.com
Abstract:
The paper points to the relations between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) with global characteristics and contemporary security problems. Starting from the existing architecture of МЕАs, the importance of several key global security challenges (climate change, water resource management, biodiversity protection, waste management and hazardous chemicals) has been ephasised. Status of the members of the UN Security Council, Republic of Serbia (RS) and RS’ neighboroughing countries (EU members) in MEAs is overviewed. The basis of the analysis is 15 MEAs open for universal membership, whose depository is the UN Secretary General. It is noted that there is no uniform membership of the states UN Security Council’ memebers in the MEAs. Some of the UN Security Council’s members are not contracting party in several MEAs. At the same time, EU member states (those who are permanent meembers of the UN Security Council, as well as RS neighboring EU countries) are members of majority of the MEAs. RS, in terms of the number of MEAs where is a contracting party, lags behind the neighboring states EU members.
Keywords:
international environmental agreements, global security, UN Security Council, EU, Republic of Serbia.