Treaty
The United States gave up its claim to the island in a treaty signed with the Cook Islands on 11 June 1980.
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Famous quotes containing the word treaty:
“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace ... that we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)