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Environment and Conservation

Protocol amending the agreement of November 16 and 18, 1993. Signed at Washington and Mexico City November 25 and 26, 2002; entered into force August 6, 2004. With appendices.

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U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future