Treaty Database Topics Thesaurus

(rev. April 1999)

 

TOPIC GROUPS

 

Administration  9

Aid  4

Communications  6

Culture  7

Diplomacy  1

Economics  3

Resources  8

Transport  5

Welfare  2

 

TOPICS

DETAILED, ANNOTATED LISTING

 

1.      Diplomacy

          Matters with long-range policy implications, normally decided at the chief-of-government level.

  1ALLY  Alliance

  Description  Military alliances, possibly including non-military matters.

  See Also  1AMITY for friendship treaties

    4MILIT for military aid

  Examples

                        Mutual defense

  1AMITY  Amity

  Description  Friendship, general relations, and matters concerning more than one topic in the Topic Group.

  See Also  1ALLY

  Examples

                        Basic cooperation between two countries

                        Cooperation in culture, science, and technology

                        Friendship and cooperation

                        Science, technology and economic cooperation

  1ARMCO  Arms Control

  Description  Arms control and disarmament, including safeguards for operation of nuclear reactors.

  See Also  1PEACE for termination of hostilities.

  Examples

                        Application of nuclear safeguards

                        Application of safeguards to nuclear materials

                        Atomic energy standards

                        Limitation of strategic arms

  1CHART  UN Membership

  Description  Acceptance of obligations of UN charter.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Acceptance of UN charter

                        Adherence to UN charter

 

  1DISPU  Dispute Settlements

  Description  Formal procedural and substantive resolutions of legal and political controversies.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Establishment of arbitration board

                        Frontier dispute

                        Judicial settlements

                        Methods for negotiation/arbitration

                        Submission of dispute to ICJ

                                Negotiation guidelines

  1ESTAB  IGO Establishment

  Description  Establishment of an international government organization (IGO).

  See Also  1HEAD for the establishment of a regional office of an already existing IGO.

  Examples

                        Establishment of an agency/service/fund/group

  1HEAD  IGO Headquarters

  Description  Establishment of an IGO headquarters, and relations between it and the host country.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Establish a regional office/headquarters/field office

                        Legal status of office in host country

  1OCCUP  Military Occupation

  Description  Belligerent occupation.

  See Also  1STATU for peacetime military forces in foreign countries.

  Examples

                        Occupation conclusion

                        Occupation costs

                        Withdrawal of troops

  1OPTC  International Court of Justice Clause

  Description  Acceptance of compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice(ICJ). 

Treaties entered under this topic are all Unilateral.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Acceptance of ICJ jurisdiction

  1PEACE  Peace/Armistice

  Description  Termination of war or hostilities.

  See Also  1ARMCO

  Examples

                        Amendment of peace treaty

                        Cessation of hostilities

                        Disengagement of forces

                        General armistice

  1RECOG  Diplomacy/Recognition

  Description  Diplomatic relations and recognition, independence of new states, acceptance of treaty

                      obligations.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Establish diplomatic relations

                        Foreign policy cooperation

                        Inheritance of treaty rights and obligations

                        Recognition

                        Upgrade missions to embassies

  1REPAR  Reparations

  Description  Post-war reparation settlements.  These are on a global or country-to-country level, and would often involve one country giving another country some lump sum of money to pay for damages. 

  See Also  3CLAIM for reparations to individuals within a country.

  Examples

                        Compensation for property loss

                        Compensation of war victims

                        Settlement of war claims

  1STATU  Status of Forces

  Description  Peacetime status of foreign military forces.

  See Also  1OCUP for military occupation

    9MILMI for military missions

    9PRIVI for military privileges

  Examples

                        Stationing of military units

                        Transitional authority of the UN

                        UN Peacekeeping forces

  1TERRI  Territorial Limits

  Description  National land and water boundaries determined by political decisions.

  See Also  9BOUND for boundary maintenance, for routine administrative matters.

  Examples

                        Delimitation of continental shelf

                                Demarcation or delimitation of boundaries

                        Frontier agreement

  1TRUST  UN Trusteeship

  Description  Establishment or operation of a UN trusteeship.  Does not involve money in trust.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Establishment of operation of UN trusteeship

 

2.  Welfare

Matters falling broadly within the scope of government agencies in charge of labor, health, and welfare.

  2HEW  General Welfare

  Description  Matters concerning more than one topic in this group.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Social cooperation

  2HUMAN  Relief/Rescue

  Description  Humanitarian relief and rescue relating to shipwrecks, floods, earthquakes and other disasters.  These involve short-term assistance for particular disasters that have occurred. 

See Also  9ADMIN for disaster preparation in general

 

Examples

                        Coordination of disaster relief

                        Emergency food relief program

                        Relief supplies

                        Search and rescue cooperation

  2LABOR  Labor

  Description  Includes migratory labor, trade unions, and internships.

 

  See Also  7EDUC for culture

    4EDUC for educational aid

  Examples

                        Exchange of student employees of workers

                        Migrant workers' regulations

                        Recruitment of workers

                        Temporary employment of workers

                        Trainee exchange

                        Workers' health of safety

                                Maternity leave

  2NARK  Narcotics Control

  Description  Control of illegal drug production and traffic.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Curbing of illicit drug production and traffic

                                Narcotics traffic

  2REFUG  Refugees

  Description  Refugees and repatriation.

  See Also  9CITIZ

  Examples

                        Housing of refugees

                        Movement of refugees

                        Protection of refugees

                        Repatriation of refugees

  2SANIT  Human Health

  Description  Disease control, public health, projects or techniques to aid public health and sanitation.

  See Also  4MEDIC for medical aid.

  Examples

                        Blood banks

                        Cooperation in health and medicine

                        Corpses

                        Project on food processing effects

                        Public health and medical research

                        Sanitation of meat exports

                        Sanitation of shellfish

  2SECUR  Social Security

  Description  Social security, retirements, old age benefits, disability, unemployment compensation.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Insurance of migrant workers

                        Old age insurance

                        Pension plan

                        Transfer of pension rights

  2WOMEN  Status of Women

  Description  Legal status of women and issues of women's equality.

  See Also

  Examples

                        White slave traffic

                                Women's legal rights

                        Women's voting rights

3.       Economics

Matters that are primarily economic in the sense of traditional international trade and payments.  But for aid-supported transactions, see 4. Aid.

  3CLAIM  Claims, Debts, Assets

  Description  Claims regarding particular debts and assets, mainly concerning retrospective settlement.  Claims for damages are analogous to a US suit for damages.)

  See Also  4AID 

  Examples

                        Claims for damages

                        Commercial debts

                        Consolidation of debts

                        Disposal of excess property

                        Release of assets

                        Repayment of loans

                        Transfer of assets

                        Unblocking of funds

 

  3COMMO  Raw Materials Trade

  Description  Trade in specific commodities, e. g. aluminum, cotton, rubber, fish, meat, phosphates, wool.

  See Also  3PROD for finished goods trade

    3TRADE for treaties about general trade

  Examples

                        Cereals production and trade

                        Cheese

                        Long-term wheat agreement

                        Meat imports

                        Sale of vegetable oil

                        Sugar

  3CUSTO  Customs Duties

  Description  Custom rates and tariffs.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Customs concessions

                        Duty free quotas

                        Free ports and free zones

                        Goods in border traffic

                        Restriction and control of imports

                                Interim GATT (when it deals mostly with customs)

                                Mutual cooperation

  3ECON  Economic Cooperation

  Description  General economic cooperation and matters not covered elsewhere, or concerning more than one topic in Topic Group 3.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Economic relations

                        Financial cooperation

                        GATT

                        Joint stock transfers

                        Non-commercial payments

                                Economic, industrial, and/or technical cooperation

  3INDUS  Industry

  Description  Factories or entire industrial sectors.

  See Also  8METAL for processing of metals as natural resources

  Examples

                        Construction of factory

                        Cooperation in industrial sectors

                        Industrial development

                        Industrial property

                        Light/heavy industries

                        Mining industries

  3INVES  Investment Guarantee

  Description  General guarantees for protection of investments.

  See Also  4LOAN for financial aid.

  Examples

                        Encouragement and protection of investments

                        Foreign investment insurance

                        Guarantees

                        Investment promotion

  3MOSTF  Most Favored Nation Status

  Description  Traditional most-favored nation treatment as the main function of a treaty, rather than as an incidental clause.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Free trade and preferential treatment

                        Most favored nation treatments for ships/workers

                        Waiver of MFN clause

  3PATEN  Patents and Copyrights

  Description  Patents, copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property.

  See Also

  Examples

                        Inventions and trademarks

                        Marks of origin

                        Mutual copyright protection

                        Trademark registration

  3PAYMT  Payments and Currency

  Description  Routine commercial payments and exchange rates.

  See Also  3TRAPA for Trade and Payments

    3CLAIM for commercial debts

  Examples

                        Amortization

                        Banking

                        Currency movements and exchange rates

                        Deferred payments