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Environment and Conservation:  Minamata Convention on Mercury

Convention adopted at Kumamoto October 10, 2013; signed by the United States November 6, 2013; instrument of acceptance deposited November 6, 2013; entered into force August 16, 2017.

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U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future