treaties: 106-49
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| id | congress | number | title | topic | transmitted_date | in_force_date | countries | index_terms | resolution_text |
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| 106-49 | 106 | 49 | International Convention for Suppression of Financing Terrorism | International Law | 2000-10-12T00:00:00Z | 106-49, Financing, United Nations, td 106-49, terrorism | <!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><meta name="dc:title" content="[107] TreatyRes. 3 for Treaty Doc.106 - 49" /><meta name="Content-Type" content="application/rtf" /><title>[107] TreatyRes. 3 for Treaty Doc.106 - 49</title></head><body><p><b>As approved by the Senate:</b></p><p><b>Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), </b></p><p><b>SECTION 1. ADVICE AND CONSENT TO RATIFICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM, SUBJECT TO A RESERVATION, UNDERSTANDINGS, AND CONDITIONS.</b></p><p><b>The Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1999, and signed on behalf of the United States of America on January 10, 2000 (Treaty Document 106-49; in this resolution referred to as the "Convention"), subject to the reservation in section 2, the understandings in section 3, and the conditions in section 4.</b></p><p><b>SEC. 2. RESERVATION.</b></p><p><b>The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the reservation, which shall be included in the United States instrument of ratification of the Convention, that</b></p><p><b> (a) pursuant to Article 24(2) of the Convention, the United States of America declares that it does not consider itself bound by Article 24(1) of the Convention; and</b></p><p><b> (b) the United States of America reserves the right specifically to agree in a particular case to follow the arbitration procedure set forth in Article 24(1) of the Convention or any other procedure for arbitration.</b></p><p><b>SEC. 3. UNDERSTANDINGS.</b></p><p><b>The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the following understandings, which shall be included in the United States instrument of ratification of the Convention:</b></p><p><b> (1) Exclusion of legitimate activities against lawful targets. The United States of America understands that nothing in the Convention precludes any State Party to the Convention from conducting any legitimate activity against any lawful target in accordance with the law of armed conflict. </b></p><p><b> (2) Meaning of the term "armed conflict". The United States of America understands that the term "armed conflict" in Article 2(1)(b) of the Convention does not include internal disturbances and tensions, such as riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence, and other acts of a similar nature.</b></p><p><b>SEC. 4. CONDITIONS.</b></p><p><b>The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the following conditions:</b></p><p><b> (1) Treaty interpretation. The Senate reaffirms condition (8) of the resolution of ratification of the Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 1990 (adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996), approved by the Senate on May 14, 1997 (relating to condition (1) of the resolution of ratification of the INF Treaty, approved by the Senate on May 27, 1988).</b></p><p><b> (2) Prohibition on extradition to the international criminal court. The United States shall not transfer any person, or consent to the transfer of any person extradited by the United States, to the International Criminal Court established by the Statute adopted in Rome, Italy, on July 17, 1998 unless the Rome Statute has entered into force for the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as required by Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution.</b></p><p><b> (3) Supremacy of the constitution. Nothing in the Convention requires or authorizes the enactment of legislation or the taking of any other action by the United States that is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States as interpreted by the United States.</b></p><p></p><p></p></body></html> |
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