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The article discusses the U.S. government's decision to file a statement of interest and a supplementary letter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York endorsing the absolute immunity of the United Nations (UN) and several UN officials to claims of liability based on the alleged introduction of cholera into Haiti by UN peacekeeping forces. The Haitian Ministry of Health states that as of June 2014, over 8,500 people have died as a result of contracting cholera.

The article discusses the Court of Final Appeal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's determination in the 2011 case FG Hemisphere Associates v. Democratic Republic of Congo that sovereign states enjoy absolute immunity in the courts of Hong Kong which cannot be waived in predispute contractual documents. Public international law and international commercial arbitration cases are mentioned, along with the New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.