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Canada-United States: Treaty on Gulf of Maine Boundary Dispute Settlement*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1981

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Footnotes

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[The Introductory Statement is reproduced from U.S. Department of State Press Release, No. 394.

[On November 25, 1981, the Governments of Canada and the United States notified the International Court of Justice of the Special Agreement to Submit to a Chamber of the International Court of Justice the Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary in the Gulf of Maine (see I.L.M. page 1378). In notifying the Court, the Governments stressed the importance of early consultations with the President of the Court so that he would be in a position to ascertain their views with regard to the composition of the Chamber. They also stressed the importance of forming the Chamber prior to the commencement of the terms of office of those Members of the Court elected in the triennial election held this year. The Government of Canada notified the Court of its intention to exercise the power conferred by Article 31 of the Statute of the Court to choose a judge ad. hoc in these proceedings. In Canadian Weekly of December 16, 1981, it was stated that Maxwell Cohen, a law professor at McGill University and former Canadian chairman of the International Joint Commission will be nominated at act as judge in this case.

[Information accompanying the original transmittal of the treaty to the Senate of the United States appears at I.L.M. page 1373, together with the original text of the Treaty at I.L.M. page 1377. The report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the Treaty appears at I.L.M. page 1383, together with the text of the resolution of ratification which contains the alterations of the Treaty at I.L.M. page 1389.]

References

* [Reproduced from U.S. Congress, Senate (96th Congress, 1st Session), Executive U and V, May 3, 1979, pp. III-XII and pp. 1-11, excluding pp.13-48 containing the text of the Agreement on East Coast Fishery Resources. By Senate Executive Resolution 1 of June 17, 1981, the Senate agreed “to return to the President of the United States, as requested in his message to the Senate under date of April 21, 1981, the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of American and the Government of Canadaon East Coast Fishery Resources, signed at Washington on March 29, 1979 (Executive V, 96th Cong., 1st sess.).”]

* [See I.L.M. page 1389 for amendment.]

* [See I.L.M. page 1389 for amendment.]

* [See I.L.M. page 1389 for amendment.]

* [See I.L.M. page 1389 for amendment.]

* [See I.L.M. page 1389 for amendment.]

* [See I.L.M. page 1390 for amendment.]

* [Reproduced from U.S. Congress, Senate (97th Congress, 1st Session), Executive Report No. 97-5, April 1, 1981.]

* [The entire text of the letters was not reproduced in the Senate Report. It is, therefore, reproduced from the U.S. Congressional Record Vol. 127, No. 63 (April 29, 1981), pp. S4051-52.]

* [The rollcall vote on April 29, 1981, was 91 in favor to none against, with 9 not voting.]