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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

John A. Boyd
John A. Boyd*
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Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 753 - 779
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1977

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1 The fourteen countries with which the United States did not have such diplomatic relations were Albania, Angola, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, Comoros Islands, People's Republic of the Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, North Korea, Mongolia, Rhodesia, Vietnam, and People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.

2 13 weekly comp. of pres. doc. 880 (June 20, 1977). President Carter first spoke of the normalization of U.S. “relationships with all states which are ready to work with us in promoting global progress and global peace” in his address to the United Nations on March 17, 1977. 76 dept. state bull. 330 (1977).

1 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 768 (May 30, 1977).

2 Dept. of State News Briefing, DPC 101, June 3, 1977. Dept. of State Press Release No. 256, June 3, 1977.

3 Dept. of State File No. P77 0104-100.

1 77Dept. State Bull. 1982 (1977). For Vice President Mondale's answers to question concerning apartheidin South Africa, see infrap. 761.

1 76 Dept. State Bull. 505-08 (1977).

1 76 Dept. State Bull. 663-65 (1977). For Vice President Mondale's views concerning Southern Rhodesia and Namibia, see suprap. 756.

2 Dept. Of Staté 21 Current Foreign Relations, item 12 (May 25, 1977).

1 Dept. of State News Briefing, DPC 100, June 2, 1977.

2 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 880 (June 20, 1977).

3 Dept. of State News Briefing, DPC 107, June 13, 1977.

4 Washington Post, June 19, 1977, at 21.

5 White House News Conference No. 99, June 14, 1977.

6 Dept. of State News Briefing, DPC 108, June 14, 1977. The rights of consular officers are covered by Article 12 of the Consular Convention and Protocol between the United States and the Soviet Union which entered into force on July 13, 1968. 19 UST 5018, TIAS No. 6503, 655 UNTS 213. The article provides that:

1. A consular officer shall have the right within his district to meet with, communicate with, assist, and advise any national of the” sending state and, where necessary, arrange for legal assistance for him. The receiving state shall in no way restrict the access of nationals of the sending state to its consular establishments.

2. The appropriate authorities of the receiving state shall immediately inform a consular officer of the sending state about the arrest or detention in other form of a national of the sending state. 3. A consular officer of the sending state shall have the right without delay to visit and communicate with a national of the sending state who is under arrest or otherwise detained in custody or is serving a sentence of imprisonment. The rights referred to in this paragraph shall be exercised in conformity with the laws and regulations of the receiving state subject to the proviso, however, that the said laws and regulations must not nullify these rights.

7 123 Cong. Rec. S9884 (daily ed. June 15, 1977).

8 Dept. of State News Briefing, DPC 111, June 17, 1977.

1 The Case-Zablocki Act was signed into law by President Nixon on Aug. 22, 1972 (Pub. L. No. 92-403).

2 1 U.S.C. §112(b)(1977). Italics indicate changes in the Act.

1 76 Dept. State Bull. 674 (1977).

2 Id.674-75.

1 Dept. State Press Release No. 232, May 26, 1977.

2 23 UST 371, TIAS No. 7313, entered into force April 18, 1972.

1 60 Stat. 1499, TIAS No. 1507, 3 UNTS 253, entered into force Feb. 11, 1946.

2 Dept. State Press Release No. 299, June 22, 1977.

1 42 Fed. Reg. 24770 (1977).

2 Section 500.3, id.24741.

1 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 914-15 (June 27, 1977).

2 See16ILM 631 (1977).

3 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 762-63 (May 23, 1977).

4 Press Release No. 249, May 20, 1977.

1 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 658 (May 9, 1977).

1 Pub. L. No. 95-52.

2 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 898 (June 27, 1977).

3 The full text of the amendments are reprinted in 16 ILM 909 (1977); for the text of Title II, see Official Documentssection, infrap. 843.

1 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 502-04 (April 11, 1977).

2 Id.

1 13 Weekly Comp. Of Pres. Doc. 756-57 (MAy 23, 1977).