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Fisheries:  Port State Measures

Agreement done at Rome on November 22, 2009; Signed by the United States on November 22, 2009; Transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate November 14, 2011 (Treaty Doc. 112-4, 112th Congress, 1st Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations March 11, 2014 (Senate Executive Report No. 113-1, 113th Congress, 2d Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate April 3, 2014; Ratified by the President February 10, 2016; Instrument of Ratification of the United States of America deposited February 26, 2016;  entered into force for the United States June 5, 2016.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future