Investigation Into Certain Past Instances of Genocide and Exploration of Policy Options for the Future: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Future Foreign Policy Research and Development of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, May 11, August 30, 1976 |
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... provisions of the present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations . " Thus , in terms of future U.S. policy , it would be possible for the Government of the United States to propose , under Rule 13 ( e ) ...
... provisions of the present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations . " Thus , in terms of future U.S. policy , it would be possible for the Government of the United States to propose , under Rule 13 ( e ) ...
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... provisions of the United Nations Charter they cannot themselves bring such proposals to the United Nations . It behooves the United States to do so , and I hope and pray that your subcommittee will make those recommendations . Thank you ...
... provisions of the United Nations Charter they cannot themselves bring such proposals to the United Nations . It behooves the United States to do so , and I hope and pray that your subcommittee will make those recommendations . Thank you ...
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... provisions Turkey has subscribed and approved . Turkey still fosters persecutions as instruments of State policy . In 1941 it imposed an oppressive " Wealth Tax " ( Varlik Vergisi ) to persecute non - Moslem minorities . Those unable to ...
... provisions Turkey has subscribed and approved . Turkey still fosters persecutions as instruments of State policy . In 1941 it imposed an oppressive " Wealth Tax " ( Varlik Vergisi ) to persecute non - Moslem minorities . Those unable to ...
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... provisions of the United Nations Charter on human rights of the minorities in Turkey . If Turkey is innocent as it claims to be , then it should have no objections to having those grave charges submitted to an impar- tial International ...
... provisions of the United Nations Charter on human rights of the minorities in Turkey . If Turkey is innocent as it claims to be , then it should have no objections to having those grave charges submitted to an impar- tial International ...
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... provision that all non - Turkish peoples of the Ottoman Empire " should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development . " This policy reflected the recommendation of the ...
... provision that all non - Turkish peoples of the Ottoman Empire " should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development . " This policy reflected the recommendation of the ...
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Page 141 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Page 170 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Page 179 - I: by seven votes to five, that a State which has made and maintained a reservation which has been objected to by one or more of the parties to the Convention but not by others, can be regarded as being a party to the Convention if the reservation is compatible with the object and purpose of the Convention; otherwise, that State cannot be regarded as being a party to the Convention.
Page 90 - International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
Page 233 - Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party.
Page 164 - The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or of any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Page 231 - Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Page 46 - The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development...
Page 142 - Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Page 218 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.