Legislation on Foreign Relations : with Explanatory Notes.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of State.

United States.

Inter-American Development Bank.

International Development Association.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1505 pages) : digital, PDF file

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1973.

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Summary:

Compilation, prepared with CRS assistance, and also for the use of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, of public laws, executive orders and other Presidential documents, international treaties and agreements, and other materials related to foreign relations. Updates 1972 compilation.

Contains texts of laws as amended to date, annotated to show pertinent history or cross references, and texts or excerpts of relevant legislation, arranged in the following sections:

I. Foreign Assistance (pages 1-223), including administration and related functions, appropriating and authorizing acts, and texts with amendments of:

II. Peace Corps (pages 225-255), including the Peace Corps Act (pages 227-247) and reorganization in ACTION.

III. Agricultural Commodities (pages 257-297), including Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with index (pages 259-291), and material related to Food for Peace Programs (pages 292-297).

IV. Department of State (pages 299-505), including organization, administration, functions, passport laws and regulations, and texts, with amendments, of:

IX. Financial Institutions (pages 847-1101), including texts of agreement decisions and other materials related to International Monetary Fund, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corporation, Inter-American Development Bank, International Development Association, Asian Development Bank, and texts, with amendments, of:

V. Information and Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs (pages 507-597), including USIA organization and functions, Foreign Service personnel systems, cultural and educational exchange authorities, and texts, with amendments, of:

VI. Arms Control and Disarmament (pages 599-666), including Arms Control and Disarmament Act, and texts of treaties dealing with banning or nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.

VII. UN and Other International Organizations (pages 667-762), including UN Charter (pages 669-693), statutes and conventions related to the International Court of Justice, UN privileges and limitations, appropriations limitations, loan and grant authorizations, resolutions and other documents regarding trade and other transactions with Southern Rhodesia, and texts of:

VIII. Collective Security Treaties and Related Material (pages 763-845), including Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (pages 764), texts of charters and protocol for OAS, and Alliance for Progress (pages 764-821), text of NATO Treaty (pages 824-827), Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (pages 830-833), and resolutions dealing with Berlin, Taiwan, Indochina, Cuba, the Middle East, and Spain.

X. Space (pages 1103-1113) containing Treaty on Outer Space and Astronaut Assistance and Return Agreement.

XI. Foreign Economic Policy: Tariff and Trade Laws (pages 1115-1258), including countervailing duties under the Tariff Act and texts of:

XII. Law of the Seas and Selected Fisheries Conventions and Acts (pages 1259-1438), including texts of international conventions and protocols relating to conservation of ocean fish, fisheries, seals, tuna, whales, and sockeye salmon, and texts of:

XIII. Other Legislation and Documents (pages 1439-1531), including regulations for 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, laws relating to loan or sale of vessels to foreign countries, and texts of:

Notes:

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Legislation on Foreign Relations,. 73-S382-6

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