Memorandum of Understanding Provisionally Applying the Treaty On Fisheries Between The Governments Of Certain Pacific Island States And The Government Of The United States of America

Filename: 2002-MemorandumOfUnderstanding-1987-FisheriesPacificIslandsUS.EN.txt
Source: 6263 KAV xvii-xviii

Memorandum of Understanding Provisionally Applying the Treaty On Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America

Source: 6263 KAV xvii-xviii

The Parties, desiring to amend and extend the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America (the "Treaty"), intend from 15 June 2003 to apply provisionally any of the following amendments which are not in force by that date:

(1) the attached amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America;

(2) the attached amendments to the Annexes to the Treaty on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America; and

(3) the attached amendments to the Treaty regarding

(a) longline fishing on the high seas of the Treaty Area;

(b) the closing of the archipelagic waters of Papua New Guinea; and

(c) the opening of the waters of Solomon Islands

as agreed to at the 11th Annual Treaty Consultations in Palau in 1999 until such time as those amendments enter into force.

Dated: ___________

Signatures

For the Government of Australia

For the Government of the United States of America

For the Government of the Cook Islands

For the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia

For the Government of the Republic of Fiji

For the Government of the Republic of Kiribati

For the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands

For the Government of the Republic of Nauru

For the Government of New Zealand

For the Government of Niue

For the Government of the Republic of Palau

For the Government of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea

For the Government of Samoa

For the Government of Solomon Islands

For the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga

For the Government of Tuvalu

For the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu