While Western governments were focused on humanitarian concerns and what they perceived to be a new refugee crisis unfolding in the Congo, Western businessmen with Ugandan and Rwandan contacts were flying into rural areas to meet with Kabila to strike deals for future con
cessionary mining contracts, anticipating that Mobutu's days were numbered.
But in cases of general State debts, too, and where no agreement on the matter has been reached by the ceding and the
cessionary states, the argument is persuasive that an apportionment should constitute the general rule.
handed over to the
cessionary of the victim, Emil Budaghyan, the defendant Artak Budaghyan and his lawyer Hayk Alumyan.