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U.S.-UN Dispute over Parking Fines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 The program is described in UN Docs. A/AC.154/305 (1997) and A/AC.154/306 (1997). See Press Release, United Nations HQ/ 573, New York City Diplomatic Parking Programme Should Be Delayed Say Speakers in Host Country Committee (Mar. 27, 1997), at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1997/19970327.hq573.html>.

2 UN Doc. A/AC.154/307, para. 30 (1997).

3 Apr. 18, 1961, Art. 31, 23 UST 3227, 500 UNTS 95.

4 Feb. 13, 1946, Arts. IV, V, 21 UST 1418, 1 UNTS 15.

5 June 26, 1947, Art. V, 61 Stat. 3416, 11 UNTS 11.

6 Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-115, §545, 115 Stat. 2118, 2155 (2002). A similar provision, albeit with reference only to the District of Columbia, appeared in prior foreign-operations appropriations laws. See, e.g., Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Act of 2001, Pub. L. No. 106-429, §550, 114 Stat. 1900, 1900A-41 (2000).

7 Memorandum of Understanding, Aug. 22, 2002, U.S. Dep’t of State-City of New York, Attachment A: Parking Program for Diplomatic and Consular Vehicles, §H [hereinafter 2002 Parking Program] (on file at GWU). This limitation constituted a reduction of approximately 2,100 diplomatic and consular cars allowed to park in the designated spaces. See City of New York Press Release on Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and U.S. Ambassador Patrick F. Kennedy Announce Historic Diplomatic Parking Program (Aug. 22, 2002), at <http://www.nyc.gov>.

8 2002 Parking Program, supra note 7, §E.

9 Id. §D.

10 Id. §H, para. 48.

11 Id. §F.

12 Letter Dated 24 September 2002 from the Chairman of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country Addressed to Members of the Committee, UN Doc. A/AC.154/358, annex (2002) (footnote omitted).