Legislation on Foreign Relations, 1974 : With Explanatory Notes.

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Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Agency for International Development.

United States.

United States. Department of State.

Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group.

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1 online resource (1747 pages) : digital, PDF file

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1974.

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Summary:

Also includes texts of bilateral inter-American fishing agreements with Colombia and Mexico and the U.S., and texts of:

Compilation, prepared with AID and CRS assistance, and also for the use of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, of public laws, executive orders and other Presidential documents, international treaties and agreements, and other materials related to foreign relations. Updates 1973 compilation.

Contains texts of laws as amended to Jan. 1, 1974, annotated to show pertinent history or cross references, and texts or excerpts of other relevant documents, arranged in the following sections:

I. Foreign Assistance (pages 1-247), including administration and related functions, appropriating and authorizing acts, and texts with amendments of:

II. Agricultural Commodities (pages 249-290), including Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with index (pages 251-280), and material related to Food for Peace Programs (pages 286-290).

III. Peace Corps (pages 293-321), including the Peace Corps Act (pages 293-313) and reorganization in ACTION (pages 316-321).

IV. Department of State (pages 323-538), including organization, administration, functions, passport laws and regulations, and texts, with amendments, of:

IX. War Powers (pages 1111-1119), containing texts of War Powers Resolution, passed over Presidential veto, Nov. 7, 1973, and Presidential national emergency proclamation of Dec. 16, 1950.

V. Information and Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (pages 539-637), including USIA organization and functions, Foreign Service personnel systems, cultural and educational exchange authorities, and texts, with amendments, of:

VI. UN and Other International Organizations (pages 639-737), including UN Charter, as amended (pages 641-665), statutes and conventions relating to the International Court of Justice, UN privileges and immunities, loan and appropriations authorizations and limitations, resolutions and other documents regarding trade and other transactions with Southern Rhodesia, and texts, with amendments, of:

VII. Financial Institutions (pages 739-1002), including texts of agreement decisions and other materials related to International Monetary Fund, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Inter-American Development Bank, International Development Association, Asian Development Bank, and texts, with amendments, of:

VIII. Collective Security Treaties and Related Material (pages 1003-1109), including Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (pages 1005-1010), texts of charter and protocol for OAS and of Act of Bogota (pages 1011-1049) and of Alliance for Progress (pages 1050-1063), texts of NATO Treaty (pages 1066-1069), Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty and protocol (pages 1078-1081), mutual defense treaties between the U.S. and the Philippines, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan, and resolutions dealing with Berlin, Taiwan, Indochina, Cuba, the Middle East, and Spain.

X. Arms Control and Disarmament (pages 1121-1197), including text of Arms Control and Disarmament Act (pages 1123-1135), and texts of treaties and agreements dealing with banning, limiting, and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.

XI. Space (pages 1199-1235), including texts of Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (pages 1201-1211), Treaty on Outer Space (pages 1218-1223), Astronaut Assistance and Return Agreement (pages 1224-1227), and Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects (pages 1228-1235).

XII. Law of the Seas and Selected Fisheries Conventions and Acts (pages 1237-1494), including texts of international conventions and protocols relating to conservation of ocean fish, fisheries, seals, whales, shrimp, sockeye salmon, and texts of:

XIII. Foreign Economic Policy: Tariff and Trade Laws (pages 1495-1650), including texts of:

XIV. Other Legislation and Documents (pages 1651-1730), including provisions of law relating to travel outside the U.S., authorization for U.S. participation in Interparliamentary Union, Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, and the U.S. Group of the North Atlantic Assembly, and texts of:

Notes:

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Legislation on Foreign Relations, 1974,. 74-H382-14

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