MOROCCO (GENERAL ACT OF ALGECIRAS)
- General act of the international conference of Algeciras and additional protocol signed at Algeciras April 7, 1906
- Senate advice and consent to ratification, with an understanding,[1] December 12, 1906
- Ratified by the President of the United States, with an understanding[1] and a reservation,[2] December 14, 1906
- Ratifications deposited at Madrid December 31, 1906
- Entered into force December 31, 1906
- Proclaimed by the President of the United States January 22, 1907
- Termination in part: Extraterritorial jurisdiction in Morocco relinquished by the United States October 6, 1956[3]
34 Stat. 2905; Treaty Series 456
[TRANSLATION]
General Act of the International Conference of Algeciras
In the Name of Almighty God:
His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, in the name of the German Empire;
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The U.S. understanding reads as follows:
"…the Senate understands that the participation of the United States in the Algeciras Conference, and in the formulation and adoption of the General Act and Protocol which resulted therefrom, was with the sole purpose of preserving and increasing its commerce in Morocco, the protection as to life, liberty and property of its citizens residing or travelling therein, and of aiding by its friendly offices and efforts in removing friction and controversy which seemed to menace the peace between powers signatory with the United States to the treaty of 1880 [July 3, 1880 (TS 246), ante, p. 71], all of which are in terms of amity with this government; and without purpose to depart from the traditional American foreign policy which forbids participation by the United States in the settlement of political questions which are entirely European in their scope." - ↑ The U.S. reservation, made at the time of signature and maintained in the President's ratification and proclamation, reads as follows:
"The Government of the United States of America, having no political interest in Morocco and no desire or purpose having animated it to take part in this conference other than to secure for all peoples the widest equality of trade and privilege with Morocco and to facilitate the institution of reforms in that country tending to insure complete cordiality of intercourse without and stability of administration within for the common good, declares that, in acquiescing in the regulations and declarations of the conference, in becoming a signatory to the General Act of Algeciras and to the additional protocol, subject to ratification according to constitutional procedure, and in accepting the application of those regulations and declarations to American citizens and interests in Morocco, it does so without assuming obligation or responsibility for the enforcement thereof." - ↑ Department of State Bulletin, Nov. 26, 1956, p. 844.
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