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Agriculture:  Plant Protection

Convention approved at the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization at Rome on November 17, 1997; transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate March 23, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-23, 106th Congress, 2d Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations September 27, 2000 Senate Executive Report No. 106-27, 106th Congress, 2d Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate October 18, 2000; Ratified by the President September 5, 2001; Ratification deposited at Rome October 2, 2001; entered into force October 2, 2005.  With annex.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future