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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Marian Nash Leich
Marian Nash Leich*
Affiliation:
Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
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Extract

The material in this section is arranged according to the system employed in the annual Digest of United States Practice in International Law, published by the Department of State.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 336 - 350
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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References

1 Circular telegram, State 386507.

The posts were given instructions for ensuring that prospective renunciants understood that their renunciation of U.S. nationality might not prevent their involuntary return to the United States.

1 Dec. 3, 1971, 27 UST 983, TIAS No. 8237, as amended by exchange of notes June 28 and July 9, 1974.

2 See 18 U.S.C. §1073 (1982) and Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act of 1980, Pub. L. No. 96–611, §10(a), 94 Stat. 3566, 3573 (1980).

3 See supra note 1.

4 Dept. of State Files L/T.

5 Id.

1 Dept. of State Files L/T.

2 For President Reagan’s address before a joint session of the Canadian Parliament, Apr. 6, 1987, see 23 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 353, 357 (Apr. 13, 1987); Deft. St. Bull., No. 2123, June 1987, at 3, 7.

1 For a description of the components of the Treaty, see Secretary Shultz’s report, infra.

2 S. Treaty Doc. 11, 100th Cong., 2d Sess., at IV (1988).

3 Id. at VII–XVI. The Secretary’s report to President Reagan was accompanied by an article-by-article analysis of the Treaty articles, the Memorandum of Understanding, the Protocol on Elimination and the Protocol on Inspection. The latter contains an Annex on Privileges and Immunities of Inspectors and Aircrew Members. The report was also accompanied by an article-by-article analysis of the Basing Country Agreement signed at Brussels on Dec. 11, 1987. That Agreement, as well, contains a corresponding Annex on Privileges and Immunities of Inspectors and Aircrew Members.

The Agreement on the Establishment of Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers, mentioned at p. 347 supra, provides for the establishment of a Nuclear Risk Reduction Center in each capital for communication at the government-to-government level by direct satellite links. The communications capability of each Center has been described as “very similar to—but separate from—the modernized Direct Communications Link (“Hot Line”), which is reserved for heads of government.” For the Agreement and its two Protocols, see Dept. St. Bull., No. 2128, November 1987, at 34, reprinted in 27 ILM 78 (1988). See further 78 AJIL 891 (1984).