Re: Any clear cut examples of the US breaching international Treaties? (was Re: IRAQ sort of: etc)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 06:02:51 MST

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    --- Kai Becker <kmb@kai-m-becker.de> wrote:
    > Am Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003 21:04 schrieb Mike Lorrey:
    > > All of your references pertain to the US support of Contras against
    > > the totalitarian socialist Sandinista regime, which had hijacked
    > > the Nicaraguan Revolution and was refusing to hold democratic
    > > elections as
    > > it was obligated to do in its agreements with the OAS.
    >
    > As far as I, as a foreigner, understand Brett's question, he asked
    > for at least _one_ incident, where the US government broke a treaty.
    > He didn't
    > ask why or if this breach was justified. He only asked for a case.
    >
    > Subsection 7 of the final decision [1] shows a "*clear* and
    > *unambiguous*
    > instance of a treaty breach by the US [...] of the sort an impartial
    > and reasonable third party would recognize":
    >
    > "[...] by the acts referred to in subparagraph (6) ['laying mines in
    > the internal or territorial waters of the Republic of Nicaragua
    > during the first months of 1984'] hereof the United States of
    > America has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of
    > its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship,
    > Commerce and Navigation between
    > the United States of America and the Republic of Nicaragua signed at
    > Managua on 21 January 1956;"

    This treaty was with the previous government, NOT with the Sandinista
    government. Historically, when revolutions occur, the new nations are
    not bound to treaties signed by the prior governments, nor can nations
    that had treaties with the prior government be obligated to observe
    such a treaty if it obligates the other nation to hospitable treatment
    and aid to a government hostile to it's interests.

    For example, the US once had treaties with Czarist Russia, especially
    with regard to American investments in Russian industry. After the
    Bolsheviks took over and started infiltrating agents into the US, it
    was no longer in our national security interest to observe treaties
    signed with the Czarist state. Most european governments were in a
    similar position in the same period.

    Because of these historical precedents, the decision of the
    International Court is wrong and evidence of their communist bias.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
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