PANAMA CANAL TREATY


 ARTICLE V
 PRINCIPLE OF NON-INTERVENTION
 Employees of the Panama, Canal Commission, their dependents and designated contractors of the Panama Canal Com-mission, who are nationals of the United States of America, shall respect the laws of the Republic of Panama and shall abstain from any activity incompatible with the spirit of this Treaty. Accordingly, they shall abstain from any political activity in the Republic of Panama as well as from any intervention in the internal affairs of the Republic of Panama. The United States of America shall take all measures within its authority to ensure that the provisions of this
 Article are fulfilled.

Pro posed amendments to Article V
 Unprinted Amendment No. 22 (Hatch), April 11, 1978 (Congressional Record, S 5249) -Tabled -62-29.
 Summary.-Required Panama to respect freedom of speech and. press.
 Text.-At the end of the last sentence of Article V, add the follow.ing new paragraph:
 "The Republic of Panama shall respect Freedom of Speech and Press, for both electronic and printed media, and shall abstain from any activity incompatible with the spirit of Freedom of Speech and Press. The Republic of Panama shall take all measures within its authority to ensure that the provisions of this Article are fulfilled.".
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