HRES 556 · 93th Congress · International Affairs
Resolution expressing the sense of the House with respect to access to the International Court of Justice.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs.(1973-09-20)
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Makes it the sense of the House that the President should undertake negotiations with states party to the Statue of the International Court of Justice to amend that statute to authorize that Court to accept jurisdiction of cases it deems appropriate so as: (1) to permit private individuals, business organizations, and other legal entities or persons to accept the compulsory jurisdiction to the Court and to be parties in cases before the Court in disputes arising between private individuals, business organizations, and other legal entities or persons from different states; (2) to provide that decrees and judgement of the International Court of Justice arrived at under (1) above shall be given full faith and credit by the courts of any state accepting jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice; and (3) to permit all parties in any civil action brought in any court of any state accepting jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to petition the International Court of Justice for the removal of such action to the International Court of Justice or any regional court thereof.…
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