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Title 22 Foreign Relation and Intercourse Chapter 5
Preservation of Friendly Foreign Relations Generally §231-250
Drafted St. Valentine’s Day Monday 14 February 2005
Full Text www.title24uscode.org/friendship.doc
A. The United States of America, desirous of strengthening the bond of peace which happily prevails between them, by arrangements designed to promote friendly intercourse between the respective territories of all Members of the United Nations. Through provisions responsive to the spiritual, cultural, economic and commercial aspirations of the people thereof to live in peace together so that they might prosper, have resolved to conclude a Friendship, Amity & Co-operation Treaty (FACT) in order to restore credibility to the testimony of the United States Foreign Service lost long before the Case Concerning Oil Platforms Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America 6 November 2003 No. 90 where the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights between the United States of America and Iran was upheld to protect the neutrality of shipping lanes at the end of the Iran Iraq war where prosecutorial US testimony was not considered admissible and Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America) No. 70 (1986) where Nicaragua accepted Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter as the jus cogens, universal norm, of international law that prohibits the use of force in international relations while the United States refused to come to trial to confess to their crimes under 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, Article XXIV of that Treaty paragraph 2, reads as follows:
"Any dispute between the
Parties as to the interpretation or application of the present Treaty, not
satisfactorily adjusted by diplomacy, shall be submitted to the International
Court of Justice, unless the Parties agree to settlement by some other pacific
means."