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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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On June 29, 1993, President William J. Clinton transmitted to the Senate, for advice and consent to ratification, the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection, with Technical Annex, done at Montreal on March 1, 1991. The Convention is aimed at precluding the recurrence of incidents such as the terrorist bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, and UTA (Union de Transports Aériens) Flight 172 over Niger in September 1989, as well as other incidents in which plastic explosives were utilized. To this end, it requires states producing such explosives to mark them at the time of manufacture with a substance enhancing their detectability by commercially available mechanical or canine detectors. The Convention also requires states to ensure the implementation of controls over the sale, use, and disposition of marked and unmarked plastic explosives.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 88 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 89 - 104
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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page 93 note 1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 8, 103d Cong., 1st Sess., at V–IX (1993). See also S. Exec. Rep. No. 15, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. (1993). On November 20, 1993, the Senate unanimously gave its advice and consent. 139 Cong. Rec. S16.857 (daily ed. Nov. 21, 1993).

page 93 note 1 See 2 Dept. of State, Dispatch 198 (1991).

page 93 note 2 Id. at 196; see also 2 Whiteman DIGEST at 321–26.

page 96 note 3 58 Fed. Reg. 40,461–62 (1993).

page 96 note 1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 37, 102d Cong., 2d Sess. (1992).

page 97 note 2 S. Exec. Rep. No. 5, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. 1–2 (1993).

page 98 note 3 139 Cong. Rec. S10.800, S10.804 (daily ed. Aug. 6, 1993). For the INF Treaty, see Treaty on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, Dec. 8, 1987, U.S.-USSR, S. Treaty Doc. No. 11, 100th Cong., 2d Sess. (1988).

page 103 note 4 4 Dept. of State, Dispatch 185–88 (1993).

page 104 note 1 S. Treaty Doc. No. 10, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. 3–4 (1993).