                                    JUDGMENT
Act (FAA) and Convention on the Recognition and
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York              This appeal was considered on the record from the United
Convention), to convert award plus costs and interests        States District Court for the District of Columbia and on
to United States dollars, and to enter judgment in their      the briefs and oral arguments of the parties. The Court has
favor against Government of Belize or, alternatively,    treatment. In 2008, the Government of Belize repudiated
[1] the doctrine of international comity was not a “rule of   that agreement. In response, BCB Holdings and Belize
procedure” of the United States, and so did not constitute    Bank invoked the agreement's arbitration clause. On
a basis for denying enforcement of the foreign arbitral       August 20, 2009, an arbitral tribunal in London ruled
award under the New York Convention;                          against Belize and ordered the country to pay a substantial
              