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Fisheries:  Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic

Agreement amending convention of October 24, 1978.  Adopted at Lisbon September 28, 2007; signed by the United States September 28, 2007; transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate April 22, 2013 (Treaty Doc. 113-3, 113th Congress, 1st Session); reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations March 11, 2014 (Senate Executive Report No. 113-4, 113th Congress, 2d Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate April 3, 2014; ratified by the President January 13, 2017; Instrument of ratification deposited with Canada January 18, 2017; entered into force May 18, 2017.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future