Considering that, while seeking means to preserve peace and prevent armed conflicts among nations, it is likewise necessary to have regard to cases where an appeal to arms may be caused by events which their solicitude could not avert; Animated by the desire to serve, even in this extreme hypothesis, …
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GENERAL TREATY.[2][3] (Translation.) In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. The Powers who signed the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th of May 1814, having assembled at Vienna, in pursuance of the 32d Article of that Act, with the princes and states their Allies, to complete …
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This treaty, signed on December 24, 1814, ended the War of 1812, fought between Great Britain and the United States. For the early decades of the nation’s history, relations between the United States and Great Britain remained strained. Their relationship deteriorated sharply with the outbreak of war in Europe in …
Leer »Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Vienna, 23 May 1969)
THE STATES PARTIES TO THE PRESENT CONVENTION, CONSIDERING the fundamental role of treaties in the history of international relations, RECOGNIZING the ever-increasing importance of treaties as a source of international law and as a means of developing peaceful co-operation among nations, whatever their constitutional and social systems, NOTING that the …
Leer »European Convention on State Immunity – Basle, 16/05/1972
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON STATE IMMUNITY Preamble The member States of the Council of Europe, signatory hereto, Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its Members; Taking into account the fact that there is in international law a tendency to restrict the …
Leer »Additional protocol to the EU-Turkey Association Agreement (the “Ankara Agreement”), 1970
ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL FINANCIAL PROTOCOL signed at Brussels, 23 November 1970 ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL PREAMBLE HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY …
Leer »EU-Turkey Association Agreement (the “Ankara Agreement”), 1963
PREAMBLE HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS OF LUXEMBOURG, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS, and THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC …
Leer »Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam (Geneva, 20 July 1954)
CHAPTER I-PROVISIONAL MILITARY DEMARCATION LINE AND DEMILITARIZED ZONE Article 1 A provisional military demarcation line shall be fixed, on either side of which the forces of the two parties shall be regrouped after their withdrawal, the forces of the People’s Army of Viet-Nam to the north of the line and …
Leer »Agreement on German External Debts (London, 27 February 1953)
AGREEMENT ON GERMAN EXTERNAL DEBTS [1] THE GOVERNMENTS of Belgium, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, the French Republic, Greece, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia of the …
Leer »Finance Convention (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the French Republic, of the one part, and the Federal Republic of Germany, of the Other Part, Agree as Follows: Article 1 In the present Convention the following terms shall, unless the context otherwise …
Leer »Convention on the Rights and Obligations of Foreign Forces and Their Members in the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic, of the one part, and the Federal Republic of Germany, of the Other Part, Agree as Follows: Part One—General Article 1—Definitions In the present Convention and the Annexes hereto the following terms …
Leer »Convention on relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn, 26 May 1952)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND and THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, of the one part, and THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, of the other part; WHEREAS a peaceful and prosperous European community of nations firmly bound to the other free nations of the …
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