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Article: Message to the Senate transmitting the Niue-United States treaty on the delimitation of a maritime boundary with documentation. (President Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- June 29, 1998
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June 23, 1998
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, for advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Niue on the Delimitation of Maritime Boundary. The Treaty was signed in Wellington May 13, 1997. The report of the Department of State is enclosed for the information of the Senate.
The sole purpose of the Treaty is to establish a maritime boundary in the South Pacific Ocean between the United States territory of American Samoa and Niue. The 279-mile boundary runs in a general east-west direction, with the United States islands of American ...