[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4708]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     EXECUTIVE REPORT OF COMMITTEE

   The following executive report of committee was submitted on March 
18, 2004, under the authority of an order of the Senate of March 12, 
2004:

        By Mr. LUGAR, from the Committee on Foreign Relations:
       [Treaty Doc. 99-10  Income Tax Convention with Sri Lanka, 
     and; Treaty Doc. 108-9 Protocol Amending Tax Convention with 
     Sri Lanka (Exec. Rept. No. 108-11)]
        Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring 
     therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the 
     ratification of the Convention between the Government of the 
     United States of America and the Government of the Democratic 
     Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for the Avoidance of Double 
     Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to 
     Taxes and Income, signed at Colombo on March 14, 1985 (Treaty 
     Doc. 99-10), and the Protocol amending the Convention, 
     together with an Exchange of Notes, signed at Washington on 
     September 20, 2002 (Treaty Doc. 108-9), subject to the 
     understanding that the authorities to which information may 
     be disclosed under Article 27 include appropriate 
     congressional committees and the General Accounting Office.

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