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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

Marian Nash  and
Leich
Marian Nash
Affiliation:
Department of State
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Extract

On June 27, 1996, the Senate voted its advice and consent to ratification of the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, with Annexes, adopted at New York on August 4, 1995, by consensus of the UN Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Stocks, and signed by the United States on December 4, 1995, subject to one declaration, which read as follows:

It is the Sense of the Senate that “no reservations” provisions as contained in Article 42 have the effect of inhibiting die Senate from exercising its constitutional duty to give advice and consent to a treaty, and die Senate’s approval of this treaty should not be construed as a precedent for acquiescence to future treaties containing such a provision.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 90 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 647 - 654
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1996

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References

1 UN Doc. A/CONF.164/37 (1995), 34 ILM 1542 (1995).

2 Dept. of State Files L/T. See also 90 AJIL 270 (1996).

1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 27, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. (1996).

2 Mar. 20, 1987, S. Treaty Doc. No. 9, 100th Cong., 1st Sess. (1987) (entered into force Apr. 3, 1989).

3 Oct. 5, 1979, TIAS No. 10,379 (entered into force Apr. 15, 1982), extended June 12, 1985.

4 S. Treaty Doc. No. 27, supra note 1, at III.

5 Id. at V–VII; see also S. Exec. Rep. No. 21, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. (1996).

1 Aug. 16, 1916, 39 Stat. 1702, 12 Bevans 375.

2 1980 U.S. Digest 901–04.

3 Dept. of State Files L/T. For the list of Principal Species Customarily and Traditionally Taken for Subsistence in the United States, enclosed with Secretary Christopher’s report to President Clinton, see R. J. Wolfe, et al., The Subsistence Harvest of Migratory Bird Species in Alaska (Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Division of Subsistence, Technical Paper No. 197, 1990).