EXEMPTIONS FROM TERRITORIAL JURISDICATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05C01629R000200360006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: REPORT

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Nationalized An Egyptian companthe Kn.fr h:l-Zayat Cotton Company,
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concluded a contract in Belgrade with the Y ngoslas? firth Ilempro
purchase of chemicai products. There way only part perforinanee
Ilempro, which was nationalized by the Federated Peoples Repu
of Yugoslavia. The Company instituted action in Alexandria,E
against, the Federated l epuhlic of Yugosl ivia to recover dam
based oil breach of contract. It obtained an order, March 18, 1951,
a Judge of Ilte'I'ribttnal of Alexandria to sequestrate certain goods
the Yugoslav Republic in Egypt on the grotntd that the Yugos
Republic, was liable to the same extent as ILenipro. The YugoslavR
public sought, to set aside the order, co-1tc'nding that it was imm
from the jurisdietion of the Egyptian courts and that Ilempro having*
separate legal Itet:st)nality was alone liable for the perforutance of tht
contract.
The Civil 'I'rihltual of Alexandria, on :11av 12, 19:i1, held that th6
of any prejudice to any right to inunnnity, and also that the ap
anus was without authority front :t proper reprtsentative of the
vigil St;tte of Spaitl that ss?;ts ne(?(Ss:Iry to enable defendants tosu
order in quest ion must be set aside. It stated :
rel)resentatives of all foreign States enjoy, aunt in'spite, of the
considered, by their very nature, as being acts of sovereignty, it
is generally agreed by the majority of writers on international
that, the seizure of the goods of a foreign State,-whether purely
as a p-?os'isiottal measure. ot? with the object of preventing that
Governnient from taking the goods out of the jtit?isdiction, is an
act which touches the sovereignty of the State. For such an
act raises doubts in the minds of third parties concerning such
sovereignty which it is the duty of this Court to avoid. Inas-
much as there exists serious doubt concerning the debt, and
that the seizure is a purely provisional measure which may affect
Frdcratcd People's Republic of Yugo8lari(j v. Kafr Bl-Zallat ('ofton Com-
pan?/, 1111;0 1 11t1 L. Rep. '225, 225,228 M o. 541.
The Purchase I )inwtorate of the Ministry of C'ommer'ce of the King-
dom of Greece entered into a written ('barter Party with the Petrol
Shipping Corporation to transport front the t'nited states to Greece
grain made available to Greece under the Agricultural Trade Develop-
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