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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. 61 Stat. , Pt.2, p. 1218. Post, p. 2404. "Participating country". Statute of the Court, as set forth in the Declaration of the President of the United States of America dated August 14, 1946.6 The provisions of this paragraph shall be in all respects without prejudice to other rights of access, if any, of either Government to the International Court of Justice or to the espousal and presentation of claims based upon alleged violations by either Government of rights and duties arising under treaties, agreements or principles of international law. 2. The Governments of the United States of America and Ioeland further agree that such claims nay be referred, in lieu of the Court, to any arbitral tribunal mutually agreed upon. 3. It is further understood that neither Government will espouse a claim pursuant to this Article until its national has exhausted the remedies available to him in the administrative and judicial tribunals of the country in which the claim arose. ARTICLE XI (Definitins ) As used in this Agreement: The term "participating countryQ means (1) any country which signed the Report of the Com- mittee of European Economic Cooperation at Paris on September 22, 1947, and territories for which It has international responsibility and to which the Economic Cooperation Agreement concluded between that country and the Government of the United States of America has been applied, and (ii) any other country (including any of the zones of occupation of Germany, any areas under international administration or control, and the Free Territory 2392

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