The clerk will report the next resolution of ratification. The bill clerk read as follows: Resolved. (twothirds of the Senators present concurring therein). That the Senate advise and consent to accession to the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. done at New York on January 31. 1967. with the following reservations: The United States of America construes Article 29 of the Convention as applying only to refugees who are resident in the United States and reserves the right to tax refugees who are not residents of the United States in accordance with its general rules relating to nonresident aliens. The United States of America accepts the obligation of paragraph 1(b) of Article 24 of the Convention except insofar as that paragraph may conflict in certain instances with any provision of title II (old age. survivors and disability insurance) or title XVIII (hospital and medical insurance for the aged) of the Social Security Act. As to any such provision. the United States will accord to refugees lawfully staying in its territory treatment no less favorable than is accorded aliens generally in the same circumstances.
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