{"id":358,"date":"2013-02-03T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:59:21","slug":"belgium-1862-treaty-of-amity-commerce-and-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/belgium-1862-treaty-of-amity-commerce-and-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium\u20141862 Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Belgium-Treaty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-391\" alt=\"Belgium Treaty\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Belgium-Treaty.jpg\" width=\"406\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Belgium-Treaty.jpg 676w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Belgium-Treaty-590x700.jpg 590w, https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Belgium-Treaty-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On October 4, 1862, a <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/pdf\/Annex%2040.pdf\">Treaty<\/a> was signed between Belgium and the Hawaiian Kingdom in Brussels and thereafter ratified by both governments. Article IV of this treaty provides:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe respective citizens of the two countries shall enjoy the most constant and complete protection for their persons and property.\u00a0 Consequently they shall have free and easy access to the court of justice in the pursuit and defense of their rights in every instance and degree of jurisdiction established by the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither Belgium nor the Hawaiian Kingdom gave notice to the other of its intention to terminate this treaty in accordance with the terms of Article XXVII of the 1862 Treaty.\u00a0 Therefore this treaty is still in full force and continues to have legal effect to date. Former Belgian territories, which acquired their independence from Belgium, are successor States to, at the very least, Article IV of the Hawaiian-Belgian Treaty with regard to the citizenry of the successor State that effectively replaced the citizenry of the predecessor State in the treaty. These successor States are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u00a0 Independence:\u00a0 June 30, 1960.<\/li>\n<li>Burundi. Independence from Belgian Trusteeship on July 1, 1962.<\/li>\n<li>Rwanda. Independence from Belgian Trusteeship on July 1, 1962.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 4, 1862, a Treaty was signed between Belgium and the Hawaiian Kingdom in Brussels and thereafter ratified by both governments. Article IV of this treaty provides: \u201cthe respective citizens of the two countries shall enjoy the most constant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/belgium-1862-treaty-of-amity-commerce-and-navigation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations","category-treaties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-5M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}