* [Reproduced from the text provided by the US Department of State. The stipulation referred to in the agreed minute, at I.L.M. page 62, was filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Southern Division) on December 26, 1985. The complaints and counterclaims in Case No. K79-400 CA, Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Company v. Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company, Kalsec, Inc., and Kalsec International, Inc., and in Case No. K81-17 CA, Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company v. The Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, were dismissed. It was also agreed that: “(1) the Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company, Kalsec, Inc., and Kalsec International, Inc. hereby release the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Company from any and all claims that may exist as of the date of this stipulation, including any claim of interest in, or relating to, any shares of the Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Company that were owned by the Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company prior to the expropriation of February 3, 1975, and (2) the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Spice Extraction Share Company hereby release the Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company, Kalsec, Inc., and Kalsec International, Inc., and their officers, directors and employees from any and all claims, and forgive any debt, that may exist as of the date of this stipulation.” [See Opinion of US District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Southern Division) of August 26, 1985, at 24 I.L.M. 1277 (1985); US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Opinion of March 9, 1984, at 23 I.L.M. 393 (1984); and Department of State letter of November 19, 1982, at 22 I.L.M. 207 (1983).]