* [The Award, Individual Opinion and Declaration are reproduced from International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Case ARB/93/1, transmitted to the Parties on February 21, 1997. This is the first award ever given under the law of a bilateral investment treaty to which the United States is a contracting party.

[The Washington Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States, of March 18, 1965, appears at 4 I.L.M. 532 (1965); The Treaty between the United States and Zaire on the Reciprocal Encouragement and Protection of Investment, of February 21, 1995, appears as part of the ASIL database project-Basic Documents of International Economic Law (BDIEL)-on Westlaw at I.E. LIII-0009 and on Lexis at 1994 BDIEL AD LEXIS 23.]