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Robert Moore "Treaty"

TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP
AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF HAWAI'I
AND THE KINGDOM OF ENENKIO

WHEREAS, the Kingdom of EnenKio and the Kingdom of Hawai'i, equally animated with the desire of maintaining the relations of good understanding which have hitherto so happily subsisted between their respective states, desire to mutually recognize their respective sovereign nations; and,

WHEREAS, the respective Governments, being mindful of a progression of relevant historic events surrounding distinct claims over the islands of Eneen-Kio Atoll, also known as Eneen-Kio, Enen-kio, San Francisco, Halcyon, Otori, Wake and by other appellations introduced by visitors to said atoll from Spain, Germany, China, Japan, The Kingdom of Hawai'i, the United States and others; and,

WHEREAS, the respective Governments wish to forevermore quiet any unresolved territorial claims, perpetuate a circumstance of Peace and ensure good relations between their nations and their peoples; and,

WHEREAS, these Governments wish to lawfully recognize the other's political structure, affirm their national sovereignty and establish formal diplomatic relations; and,

WHEREAS, these Governments are desirous of promoting economic, social and cultural exchanges and support of all their peoples unalienable natural Rights, substantiated by such landmark charters as all acknowledged scriptures of spiritual enlightenment, the English Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the united States of America, the 1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, the lawful Constitutions of these states, the Law of Nations and the Charter of the United Nations;

NOW THEREFORE, the appointed Plenipotentiaries of these Governments, who, after having exchanged testimony of their full powers, found in good and due form, have resolved, agreed and signed the covenants in the following articles:

ARTICLE I

The Kingdom of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of EnenKio do hereby formally and officially recognize their respective Governments and all the rightful authorities of one another of their Governments to exercise all such inherent powers within their respective jurisdictions as may be provided in accordance with international law and as are or may be established under the Charter of the United Nations for sovereign member states of that organization.

ARTICLE II

The Kingdom of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of EnenKio do hereby declare that a state of Perpetual Peace does exist between their sovereign states and peoples.

ARTICLE III

The Kingdom of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of EnenKio further declare that they shall undertake such necessary and proper steps as may be appropriate to implement this accord and shall, therefore, enter into such further agreements as may be desirous from time to time to promote and enhance good relations in support of one another in pursuing Perpetual Peace for their peoples and sovereignty of their Governments.

ARTICLE IV

There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce and navigation between EnenKio and the Hawaiian Islands. No duty of customs, levy or other impost, shall be charged upon any goods, produce or manufacture of one nation, upon importation from such nation into the other, other or higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of the same kind, imported from any other country. These Governments do hereby agree that the subjects or citizens of one state shall not enjoy any favor, privilege or immunity, in matters of commerce and navigation, which shall not also, at the same time, be extended to the subjects or citizens of the other.

ARTICLE V

The Kingdom of Hawai'i and the Kingdom of EnenKio further declare that all reciprocal rights, conferred by any treaty whatsoever signed by the Kingdom of Hawai'i and implemented prior to the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom by forces of the United States, shall be hereby affirmed valid and in force with respect to the Kingdom of EnenKio, which shall enjoy the same privileges and power as those of the most favored nations.

ARTICLE VI

The Governments hereby grant reciprocal diplomatic recognition of representatives and consuls and shall conduct their diplomatic and consular relations in accordance with those defined and enumerated in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of April 18, 1961, and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of April 24, 1963. Pending accreditation of the permanent staff of each Government's mission to the other, each shall treat personnel assigned to perform diplomatic or consular functions as if they were members of the other's permanent mission.

ARTICLE VII

The Kingdom of Hawai'i, mindful of the state of war declared to exist over the Kingdom of EnenKio by reason of acts by the federal government of the United States, hereby grants political asylum to representatives of the Kingdom of EnenKio Government, and to such citizens thereof who may elect to request same of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

ARTICLE VIII

Following establishment of relations, the two Governments, upon request of either, shall enter into negotiations with the other for the prompt settlement of any claims and other financial and property matters that arise between them. Respecting the former status of Eneen-Kio as a Hawaiian Dependency, the claim is perpetually relinquished in favor of the establishment of administration founded upon Marshallese tradition, culture and system of tenure.

ARTICLE IX

There shall be granted to the Government of the Kingdom of EnenKio the liberty of establishing an official embassy, as a Nation in Exile, being under duress, acceptable to and within the grace of the Kingdom of Hawai'i, for the purpose of conducting affairs of state, coinage of money and fiscal instruments or financial notes, issuance of bonds and certificates of indebtedness, administering banking and commercial transactions, and for the printing, sale and use of postal and philatelic products. Reciprocal conditions and state privileges applicable for postal authorities and the mailing of articles as set forth in prevailing directives and the constitution of the Universal Postal Union shall be equally respected.

ARTICLE X

No duties of tonnage, harbor, lighthouses, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar duties, of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination, shall be imposed in either state upon the flagged vessels of the other, in respect of voyages between the Kingdom of EnenKio and the Hawaiian Islands. Vessels of one state, which may be employed by the Government of the other, in the carrying of their Public Mail across the Pacific Ocean, or from one port in that ocean to another, shall have free access to the ports of the Hawaiian Islands and EnenKio, with the privilege of stopping therein to refit, to refresh, to land passengers and their baggage and for the transaction of any business pertaining to public Mail services, and be subject in such ports to no duties of tonnage, harbor, lighthouses, quarantine, or other similar duties of whatever nature or of whatever denomination.

ARTICLE XI

The citizens and subjects of each of the two nations shall be free in the state of the other to manage their own affairs themselves, or to commit those affairs to the management of any persons whom they may appoint as their broker or agent; nor shall the citizens and subjects of the two states be restrained in their choice of person to act in such capacities, nor shall they be called upon to pay and salary or remuneration to any person whom they shall not choose to employ. Absolute freedom shall be given in all cases to the buyer and seller to bargain together and to fix the price of any real property, goods or merchandise imported into, or to be exported from either state, except generally in such case wherein the laws and usages of the country may require the intervention of any special agent in the estate and dominion of the states.

ARTICLE XII

If any ships or other vessels be wrecked on the coasts of either of the states, such vessels, and all furniture and appurtenances belonging thereunto, and all goods and merchandise shall be stored with the least possible delay to the proprietors, which upon being claimed thereby, shall be rendered forthwith. If there are no such proprietors or agents on the spot, then the said goods, as well as any papers found on board such wrecked vessels, shall be delivered to the state consul, or vice consul, in whose district the wreck took place, which consul shall pay any reasonable expenses incurred in the preservation of the property, together with the rate of salvage, and expenses of quarantine which would have been payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel, it being understood that in case of any legal claim upon such wreck, goods, or merchandise, the same shall be referred for decision of the competent tribunals of the state.

ARTICLE XIII

This Agreement and Treaty of Peace shall enter into force upon signature of the Parties. Done in Honolulu, Hawai'i this 9th day of October, 1997, in the English language.