[Servant of the 9]

Non-governmental organizations have complained that the United States has pushed countries into signing the deals by saying it will otherwise withhold humanitarian aid or military support or even by blocking NATO membership.

That is called Diplomacy.

So9

[e_engineer]

Found this at WFA.org. it shows which countries we have agreements with:

	Has Concluded a BIA	Has Not Concluded a BIA	Publicly Refused to Conclude a BIA
ICC Member States	Waived permanently: Afghanistan Albania Antigua & Barbuda Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Colombia Djibouti DR Congo East Timor Gabon Gambia Georgia (Reciprocal) Ghana Honduras Malawi Mauritius Mongolia (Unconfirmed) Nigeria (Unconfirmed) Senegal Sierra Leone (Reciprocal) Tajikistan (Reciprocal) Uganda (Reciprocal) Zambia	Andorra (no aid) Australia – EXEMPT Belize ($400,000) Benin ($500,000) Bulgaria – Partially waived Central Africa Republic ($150,000) Cyprus (no aid) Eastern Caribbean (Barbados, Dominica, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines) (up to $2.7 million) Ecuador ($15.65 million) Finland (no aid) Lesotho ($125,000) Liechtenstein (no aid) Malta ($1.25 million) New Zealand - EXEMPT Niger ($200,000) Rep. Of Korea – EXEMPT Samoa ($150,000) San Marino (no aid) Serbia & Montenegro ($500,000) Slovakia – Partially waived Uruguay ($1.45 million)	Argentina - EXEMPT Austria (no aid) Belgium – EXEMPT Brazil – ($500,000) Canada - EXEMPT Costa Rica ($400,000) Croatia ($5.8 million) Denmark – EXEMPT Estonia – Partially waived France – EXEMPT Germany – EXEMPT Greece - EXEMPT Ireland (no aid) Italy – EXEMPT Jordan - EXEMPT Latvia – Partially waived Lithuania – Partially waived Luxemburg – EXEMPT Mali ($250,000) Namibia ($225,000) Netherlands – EXEMPT Paraguay ($300,000) Peru ($2.7 million) Portugal – EXEMPT Slovenia – Partially waived South Africa ($7.6 million) Spain – EXEMPT Sweden (no aid) Switzerland (no aid) Tanzania ($230,000) Trinidad &Tobago ($450,000) United Kingdom – EXEMPT Venezuela ($700,000)
	Waived until January 1, 2004: Bolivia FYR Macedonia Panama
	Waived until March 24, 2004: Guinea (Unconfirmed)
	Waived until May 1, 2003: Romania
	No Waiver: Cambodia Fiji Marshall Islands Nauru

 

	Has Concluded a BIA	Has Not Concluded a BIA	Publicly Refused to Conclude a BIA
Non-ICC Member States	Azerbaijan (Reciprocal) Bahrain - EXEMPT Bangladesh (Reciprocal) Bhutan Dominican Republic Egypt – EXEMPT (Unconfirmed) El Salvador India (Reciprocal) Israel (Reciprocal) Ivory Coast Kazakhstan  Kuwait (Unconfirmed) Liberia (no aid) Madagascar Maldives Mauritania Micronesia  Morocco (Unconfirmed) Mozambique (Unconfirmed) Nepal (Reciprocal) Nicaragua Pakistan Palau Philippines - EXEMPT (Reciprocal) Rwanda (Reciprocal) Seychelles Islands (Unconfirmed) Solomon Islands Sri Lanka (Reciprocal) Thailand Togo Tonga Tunisia (Unconfirmed) Tuvalu Uzbekistan	Of note: Japan - EXEMPT Mexico Bahamas

[RWR8189]

Another victory for the Bush administration.

If Clinton had his way, we would all be submitting to world bodies over our own. What do we need a Constitution for when we have "international covenants"??

[presidio9]

Belize, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Panama, and Fiji.

Thank God we finally got all four of these guys on board.