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Pollution: Caribbean Region

Protocol to Convention of March 24, 1983. Done at Kingston on January 18, 1990; Transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate April 20, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-5, 103rd Congress, 1st Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations July 30, 2002 (Senate Executive Report No. 107-8, 107th Congress, 2d Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate September 5, 2002; Ratified by the President January 31, 2003; Instrument of Ratification of the United States of America deposited; entered into force for the United States April 16, 2003.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future