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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Extract

The material for this section is compiled by Steven C. Nelson, attorney in the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1970

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References

1 For text of Genocide Convention, see 62 Dept. of State Bulletin 352 (1970); 45 A.J.I.L. Supp. 7 (1951).

1 The Convention entered into force with respect to the United States on June 24, 1967. Accession was advised by the Senate on May 8, 1967, was approved by the President on May 15, 1967, and the United States instrument of accession was deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations on May 25, 1967. For text of the Convention see T.I.A.S., No. 6298; 520 U.N. Treaty Series 204.

1 For texts of the conventions, see Dept. of State Bulletin of June 30, 1958, p. 1111; 52 A.J.I.L. 834 (1958).

2 The complete text of President Nixon's foreign policy report to the Congress on Feb. 18 is printed in the Bulletin of March 9, 1970; the section entitled “United Nations” begins on p. 313.

1 For a general history of United States experience in this connection, see Lowenfeld and Mendelsohn, “The United States and the Warsaw Convention,” 80 Harvard Law Rev. 497 (1967).

2 ICAO Legal Committee, Summary of Seventeenth Sess. 40, ICAO Doc. No. 8865- LC/159, Part III (1970).

3 ICAO Legal Committee, Summary of Seventeenth Sess. 47, ICAO Doc. No. 8865- LC/159, Part III, Annex C (1970).

1 At the rate of U.S. $35 per ounce of gold, this sum represents about $100,000.

2 At the rate of U.S. $35 per ounce of gold, this sum represents about $2,500.

1 ICAO Legal Committee, Summary of the Seventeenth Sess. 27, ICAO Doc. No. 8865-LC/159, Part II (1970).

2 ICAO Legal Committee, Summary of Seventeenth Sess. 31, ICAO Doc. No. 8865- LC/159, Part II, Annex B (1970).

* For the Tate letter of May 19, 1952, see 26 Dept. of State Bulletin 984 (June 23, 1952), commented on in 47 A.J.I.L. 93 (1953).