Contemporary practice of the United States relating to international law

American Journal of International Law

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-279

  Nash, Marian ^a  

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EID: 0030554898     PISSN: 00029300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2203689     Document Type: Article

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1. Pub. L. No. 103-236, 108 Stat. 382, 397 (1994).
2. Id. Section 138 of Pub. L. No. 103-236 also requires that any such determination be published in the Federal Register. 1 U.S.C. §112a(c).
3. 61 Fed. Reg. 7070-71 (1996). For a discussion of the Department's reasons for determining that the categories of agreements met the statutory criteria for nonpublication, see 60 id. at 54,319 (1995). In selecting the categories, the Department focused on several areas with a large volume of agreements that do not appear to be of general public interest, and/or that are frequently revised, and/or that are readily available from private sources.
4. 64 Stat. 979 (codified at 1 U.S.C. §112a).
5. 52 Stat. 760.
6. 80 Stat. 271. See 14 Whiteman, DIGEST 119-22. With regard to international agreements other than treaties, "including the text of any oral international agreement, which agreement shall be reduced to writing," the Case-Zablocki Act, Pub. L. No. 92-403, 86 Stat. 619 (1972) (codified at 1 U.S.C. §112b), required that the texts of such agreements thereafter entered into by the United States be transmitted to Congress within 60 days after their execution. The Case-Zablocki Act made no change in the publishing requirement.
7. Elimination of the requirement to publish the international agreements listed above in United States Treaties and Other International Agreements results also in their no longer being made available in printed slip or pamphlet form in the TIAS, although, as required by 1 U.S.C. §112a(c), the Department of State will make copies available upon request. (The Department plans to continue numbering printed international agreements, whether treaties or executive agreements, in the TIAS consecutively in the order of printing.)
8. Pub. L. No. 104-43, 109 Stat. 366 (1995). In addition to Title I - High Seas Fishing Compliance (the High Seas Fishing Compliance Act of 1995), which implements the 1993 FAO Agreement, the Fisheries Act of 1995 contains seven other titles: Title II - Implementation of Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Convention Act of 1995); Title III - Atlantic Tunas Convention Act (Atlantic Tunas Convention Authorization Act of 1995); Title IV - Fishermen's Protective Act (amending the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 to cover reimbursement of "transit license" fees through the "Inside Passage" off the Pacific Coast of Canada); Title V - Fisheries Enforcement in Central Sea of Okhotsk (Sea of Okhotsk Fisheries Enforcement Act of 1995); Title VI - Driftnet Moratorium (High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act); Title VII - Yukon River Salmon Act (Yukon River Salmon Act of 1995); and Title VIII - Miscellaneous (containing an amendment to sec. 9 of the South Pacific Tuna Act of 1988, 16 U.S.C. §973g, and provisions governing foreign fishing for Atlantic herring and Atlantic mackerel).
9. S. TREATY DOC. NO. 24, 103d Cong., 2d Sess. at III (1994).
10. Id. at V-VIII. See also S. EXEC. REP. NO. 32, 103d Cong., 2d Sess. (1994).
11. UN Doc. A/CONF.164/33 (1995).
12. On October 6, 1994, President Clinton had transmitted the 1982 Convention, as modified by the Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI, to the Senate for its advice and consent both to U.S. accession to the Convention and to U.S. ratification of the Agreement. S. TREATY DOC. NO. 39, 103d Cong., 2d Sess. (1994).
13. S. TREATY DOC. NO. 24, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. at III (1996).
14. Id. at V-VII.
15. S. TREATY DOC. NO. 1, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. (1993).
16. S. EXEC. REP. NO. 10, 104th Cong., 1st Sess. (1995).
17. 142 CONG. REC. S461-63 (daily ed. Jan. 26, 1996). See also 87 AJIL 258 (1993). For the Bush-Yeltsin Joint Understanding on Reductions in Strategic Offensive Arms, June 17, 1992, see 3 DEPT. ST. DISPATCH 492 (1992); for their Joint Statement on a Global Protection System, see id. at 493.
18. Dept. of State Files L/CID. In regard to the 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655 during an exchange of surface fire between the USS Vincennes and a group of Iranian naval craft, and President Reagan's offer of compensation, see 83 AJIL 912 (1989).