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Pollution: Great Lakes Water Quality

Protocol amending the agreement of November 22, 1978, as amended.  Signed at Washington September 7, 2012; entered into force February 12, 2013.  With appendix.

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U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future