Resolution of advice and consent, Treaty Doc. 95-2B

TEXT OF RESOLUTION OF ADVICE AND CONSENT TO RATIFICATION AS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Montreal Protocol No. 4 to Amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw on October 12, 1929, as amended by the Protocol done at The Hague on September 8, 1955 (herein after Montreal Protocol No. 4) ((Treaty Doc. 95-2B)Executive B, 95th Congress, 1st Session), subject to the declaration of subsection (a), and the provisos of subsection (b). (a) DECLARATION. -- The Senate's advice and consent is subject to the following declaration: (1) TREATY INTERPRETATION.--The Senate affirms the applicability to all treatiesof the constitutionally based principles of treaty interpretation set forth in Condition (1) of the resolution of ratification of the INF Treaty, approved by the Senate on May 27, 1988, and Condition (8) of the resolution of ratification of the Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, approved by the Senate on May14, 1997. (b) PROVISOS.-- The resolution of ratification is subject to the following provisos: (1) SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION.-- Nothing in the Treaty requires or authorizes legislation or other action by the United States of America that is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States as interpreted by the United States. (2) RETURN OF PROTOCOL NO. 3 TO THE PRESIDENT.-- Upon submission of this resolution of ratification to the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Senate is directed to return to the President of the United States the Additional Protocol No. 3 to Amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air, signed at Warsaw on October 12, 1929, as amended by the Protocols done at The Hague, on September 28, 1955, and at Guatemala City, March 8, 1971 (Executive B, 95th Congress).