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 | | Environment - current issues: air pollution from industrial emissions such as sulfur dioxide; coastal and inland rivers polluted from industrial and agricultural effluents; acid rain damaging lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment and disposal facilities |
 | | party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxide Protocol, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling |
 | | Geography - note: strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe |
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