The Govt cleverly ignores the following part of the agreement between US and China and the absence of this line in our agreement
"The parties recognize, with respect to the observance of this agreement, the principle of international law that provides that a party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty"
This means that the domestic laws of US will not apply in case of the agreement with China, This is not true in the case of our agreement.
RE:mms
by GBJ on Jul 09, 2008 03:57 PM Permalink
Mr. Chhandra, This is the only difference btween Indian and Chinese agreements. But first understand how a international agreement works. This clause goes without saying in any international bilateral agreement because an international agreemnet bypasses all domestic laws. Hence this clause in Chinese agreemnt has no significance at all as per Geneva convention.
