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	Toxic Trade News
		The Basel pact, adopted in 1989, is designed to reduce cross-border movements of hazardous waste to a minimal level, improve controls on the movement of waste, prevent illegal traffic, and ensure that waste is disposed of as close as possible to the source of generation.
		Instead of relying on Basel, the countries that are negotiating the POPs treaty should define ways of disposing of wastes that protect health and the environment, IPEN said.
		The treaty should define "environmentally sound" to mean "processes that destroy all the toxic constituents and toxic by-products of the feedstock to the maximum extent available and do not create or release other POPs," IPEN said.
	www.ban.org /ban_news/international3.html (1052 words)

	Persistent Organic Pollutants Treaty - Information and Resources - Toxics - Sierra Club
		The new treaty, one of many important initiatives growing out of the 1992 Earth Summit, represents the most ambitious effort by the global community to date to rein in and ultimately halt the proliferation of toxic chemicals.
		The treaty calls for regular review by the Conference of Parties of both the level of funding and the effectiveness of performance of the institutions entrusted with the treaty's financial operations.
		The treaty requires open exchange of information among governments and widespread dissemination of public information concerning the properties and status of existing POPS and progress toward their elimination, and specifies that "information on health and safety of humans and the environment shall not be regarded as confidential."
	www.sierraclub.org /toxics/resources/treaty.asp (2417 words)

	October 5, 2000 NGO meeting on Hague treaty on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgements
		The push for the treaty by the US was described as coming from "middle class" litigants -- apparently relatively small parties (not giant corporations), who had claims against foreign parties that would not pay.
		The talks on the treaty began in 1992, but the first drafts did not appear until 1998, and the first complete drafts were made available in June and then October 1999.
		The current schedule for discussions on the treaty are: October 30- November 1, international negotiations on the text, held at the US Department of State in Washington, DC December 11-12, ICC/OECD/Hague meeting in the Hague on ADR, with discussion of relationship between ADR and Hague.
	www.cptech.org /ecom/jurisdiction/oct5-notes.html (2421 words)

	Basel Action Network (BAN)
		As the Basel Ban has been the dominant goal, activity and product of the treaty and since the US still actively opposes it, US efforts to now accede to the original treaty and ignore the Basel Ban Amendment must, in our view, be seen as an act of bad faith.
		A close look at the stated US motivations for selectively ratifying the Basel Convention reveals that the strongest motivation is likely to be an unstated one -- an enhanced ability for the United States to continue to work against the progressive efforts of the treaty -- this time as a fox inside the chicken coop.
		By selectively ratifying the treaty, they hope to get their large foot in the door, however unwelcome it might be, and be much better positioned to kick major loopholes in the Basel Ban.
	www.ban.org /Library/beware_us_fox.html (924 words)

	Basel Agreement
		The Issue The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste (hereafter referred to as the "Basel Convention" or "Convention") is the first global attempt to regulate and monitor the international transport of hazardous wastes.
		In the end, the Basel Convention produced twenty-nine articles and six annexes that regulate, from cradle to grave, all hazardous wastes that are to be shipped across national borders.
		Basel provides for extensive regulation of the movement of wastes which will prove beneficial in guaranteeing safe and proper disposal.
	www.american.edu /TED/basel.htm (1403 words)

	JanUS Faced Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Basel Action Network is an international watchdog group that is trying to enforce the Convention.
		It was absurd for the U.S. representative at the conference, John Bolton, to invoke the Second Amendment to justify the administration's objections to the proposed treaty.
		Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems (May 26, 1972).
	www.artcontext.org /crit/scrapbook/2002/janus_faced_nation.html (460 words)

	Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General- TREATY I-XXVII--18.asp
		In the case of a proposed movement of a consignment of hazardous waste from the Basel Party to a second Basel Party via a non-Party, we would wish the second Basel Party to send a copy of its final response regarding movement to the non-Party.
		At the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention held in Kuching, Malaysia from 23 to 27 February 1998, Germany agreed to the amendments and the new Annexes.
		For this reason and in conformity with Article 18 (2) (b) of the Basel Convention, the Federal Republic of Germany declares that it cannot at present accept the amendments to Annex I and the new Annexes VIII and IX to the Basel Convention.
	untreaty.un.org /ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/partI/chapterXXVII/treaty18.asp (3873 words)

	BASEL
		There were fierce engagements and villages were burned, but against the odds the Swiss prevailed and Maximilian was forced to sign a peace treaty at Basel in which the Empire formally acknowledged the existence of the League and, tacitly, conceded Swiss independence.
		Basel, a wealthy city and one of the nurseries of European capitalism, joined the Swiss confederation in 1501 and the independence of the Swiss states was soon to be taken for granted.
		He returned to Basel in October to resume a heavy teaching load, but as early as 1871 ill health prompted him to seek relief from the stultifying chores of a professor of classical philology; he applied for the vacant chair of philosophy and proposed Rohde as his successor, all to no avail.
	www.demenga-galleries.ch /basel.htm (1307 words)

	First Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		French arms established the Batavian Republic as a satellite state (May 1795) and gained the Prussian Rhineland by the first Treaty of Basel.
		Spain made a separate peace accord with France (second Treaty of Basel) and the French Directory carried out plans to conquer more of Germany and northern Italy (1795).
		North of the Alps, Archduke Charles of Austria redressed the situation in 1796, but Napoleon carried all before him against Sardinia and Austria in northern Italy (1796–1797) near the Po Valley, culminating in the peace of Leoben and the Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/first_coalition (319 words)

	NAFTA Flouts Global Toxic Waste Dumping Treaty
		Canada,which is a Party to the United Nations international treaty known as the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, argued correctly that their 1995-1997 PCB export ban was justified under the Basel Convention.
		Under the Basel Convention, member parties to that treaty are obligated to reduce their exports of hazardous wastes to a minimum and instead provide adequate technical capacity for dealing with the wastes at home.
		Further, as Canada is a Party to the Basel Convention and the United States is not, the only hazardous waste trade that is allowed between the countries must be subject to a specially allowed bilateral agreement.
	www.mindfully.org /WTO/NAFTA-Flouts-Dumping-Treaty.htm (489 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: First coalition
		The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties of France (represented by FranÃ§ois de BarthÃ©lemy).
		The Po (Latin: Padus) is a river that flows 652 kilometers eastward across northern Italy, from Mount Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.
		The Treaty of Campo Formio was signed on October 17, 1797 (26 VendÃ©miaire, Year VI of the French Republic) by Napoleon Bonaparte and Count Ludwig von Cobenzl as representatives of France and Austria.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/First-coalition (1638 words)

	1999 March 11 - IGO Report: Work Continues on Treaty Covering Persistent Organic Pollutants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		During preliminary discussion, some delegates felt that the Prior Informed Consent and Basel Conventions already dealt with trade in POPs and that there was no reason to duplicate their provisions.
		Others argued that it was not enough to place such trade under these conventions, since they might not adequately deal with the problem of POPs and that failure to include strict trade measures in the treaty would defeat its purpose as regards substances that travel long distances.
		The UNEP Governing Council has asked that drafting of the treaty be completed by 2000.
	www.uscib.org /index.asp?documentID=1081 (425 words)

	Censored News 1982
		It was overwhelmingly adopted by a vote of 111 to 1 with 35 abstentions.
		Negotiations reached an impasse when India vetoed the treaty, but a group of nations agreed to informally present the U.N. General Assembly with a report on the conference's work.
		The vote was 158 for the treaty, with three against (India, Libya, and Bhutan) and five abstentions.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1982.html (1202 words)

	IPN: Let the trade in waste continue
		Last week marked the sixth meeting of the Convention of Parties to the Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, a treaty that seeks to eliminate human and environmental harm caused by the trade in hazardous waste.
		In this way, the Basel treaty illustrates an evolving conflict where trade sanctions are used to enforce Western labor and environment standards, undermining the move toward transparent, non-discriminatory rules through the World Trade Organization.
		With environmental treaties, it is common that aid-dependent nations such as those in Africa become pawns in the game, enticed with money to sign and ratify treaties.
	www.policynetwork.net /main/article.php?article_id=446 (890 words)

	WWF Canada - News - No Action on Toxics Treaty Leaves People and Wildlife Exposed
		The treaty targets 12 of the most highly persistent and toxic chemicals ever produced and becomes legally binding when 50 nations ratify.
		In May 2001 Canada was the first of ten countries to ratify and complies with many of the treaty's requirements, having banned the manufacturing and use of DDT and eight other highly persistent pesticides and PCBs years ago.
		The 12 substances in the treaty include dioxins and furans, often cited as "the most toxic chemicals on earth," and DDT which is still widely used for malaria control in the tropics.
	www.wwf.ca /NewsAndFacts/NewsRoom/default.asp?section=archive&page=display&ID=1265&lang=EN (599 words)

	2002 January 9 - Comments on US-UK Tax Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The imposition of an extra shareholder level tax for which the shareholder frequently cannot claim a credit therefore causes profits distributed in cross-border transactions to be subject to double taxation at the shareholder level.
		This aspect of the UK treaty establishes the precedent that imposition of withholding tax on such dividend distributions is neither necessary nor required.
		The Treaty introduces several new provisions generally aimed at rationalizing the treatment of pension distributions, contributions, and benefit accruals for employees.
	www.uscib.org /index.asp?documentID=1940 (852 words)

	NAURU, Treaties, Agreements, Conventions: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Nauru to the United Nations
		Treaty on Cooperation in Fisheries Surveillance and Law Enforcement in the South Pacific Region (Niue Treaty).
		Nauru became a signatory to the Treaty on Sept. 8, 2000, and ratified it on November 12, 2001.
		Nauru became a signatory to the Statute on 13 December 2000, and ratified it on November 12, 2001.
	www.un.int /nauru/treaties.html (1146 words)

	The International Workingmen's Association, Draft of a speech on Poland and France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After the treaty of Westphalia, in the second part of the 17th century, Louis XIV, the true representative of the old Bourbon policy at the time of its strength, bought the king of England, Charles II, in order to ruin the Dutch republic.
		A treaty of peace (Peace of Vienna, October 1735), by which the duchy of Lorraine, a German fief, was incorporated into France, and the Bourbon dynasty planted in Naples and Sicily, the same dynasty of which king Bomba [4] was the last lively representative.
		Treaty of Campo-Formio in which the Poles were again sacrificed in the same way as they had been in the treaty of Basel.
	www.marxists.org /history/international/iwma/documents/1864/poland-speech.htm (6181 words)

	Talking Points on the Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Basel Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste, designed ostensibly to prevent industrialized nations from dumping hazardous materials on unsuspecting developing nations, was signed in March 1992 and subsequently ratified by twenty-four industrialized nations.
		The Basel Convention establishes two classes of people in the world -- the 24 leading industrialized nations and the developing world -- and bars trade in a large range of materials and commodities between the two.
		Greenpeace was one of the key forces behind the Basel Convention and it's clear that they see the treaty as far more than a means of preventing developing nations from becoming the industrial nations' waste dump.
	www.nationalcenter.org /tp17.html (440 words)

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		The Rio summit also set in motion negotiations for a treaty on desertification that is intended to prevent the further degradation of arid lands, usually as a result of poor agricultural practices, overgrazing or deforestation.
		The United States has also not yet joined the 128 countries that have ratified the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty, or the 122 countries that are party to the 1989 Basel convention on the export of hazardous wastes.
		Strong business opposition can stop environmental treaties in their tracks, but a growing number of American companies are beginning to understand that their interests are better served when the United States has a seat at the international table.
	www.overpopulation.org /Eco_IsolationismJan99.html (705 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Spain, 1789-1808
		In 1795 the Treaty of Basel was concluded in which Spain ceded Santo Domingo, today's Dominican Republic, to France; both sides withdrew to their own territory.
		In 1802 the Treaty of Amiens was concluded, which restored Menorca to Spain, at the price of the cession of Trinidad to Britain.
		Excerpts from Treaty of San Ildefonso 1796, from Treaty of Badajoz 1801, from Treaty of Fontainebleu 1807, in Engl.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/spain/spain17891808.html (761 words)

	Dominican Republic HISTORY
		In 1697, by the Treaty of Ryswick, Spain was forced to recognize French dominion over the western third of the island, an area now known as Haiti.
		In 1795, under the Treaty of Basel, Spain ceded to France the eastern two-thirds of the island, which by then had been renamed Santo Domingo.
		After a brief attempt at independence, the Dominicans fell under the control of Spain, which regained the eastern section of the island under the Treaty of Paris (1814).
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Dominican-Republic-HISTORY.html (1626 words)

	Louisiana Timeline: Years 1795
		The South Province which is the western tip of the country’s southern peninsula is held by Andre Rigaud and his mulatto coffee planters.
		South America & Caribbean:Spain cedes the colony of Santo Domingo, the Spanish eastern half of Hispanola, to France in the 1795 Treaty of Basel.
		The thirty-first parallel line is established by the Pinckney Treaty, Oct. 27, 1795, as the dividing line between the southern United States and Spanish West Florida.
	www.enlou.com /time/year1795.htm (1146 words)

	Basel Action Network
		The toxicity is due to the use of the toxic metal lead in the phones and their propensity to leach the lead content when deposited in a municipal landfill.
		Movements of hazardous wastes of all kinds are meant to be defined, and controlled or prohibited under the terms of the Basel Convention – an international treaty under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme.
		While the Basel Convention has launched the Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative, with the top 10 manufacturers of mobile phones, that program has made a decision to ignore the legal implications of the Basel Convention with respect to mobile phones.
	www.commondreams.org /news2004/0427-07.htm (557 words)

	Treaty of Basel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		International Vacancies with CTBTO - Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Treaty_of_Basel.html (338 words)

	International Conservation Agreements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Antarctic Treaty came into force on 23 June 1961 after ratification by the twelve countries then active in Antarctic science.
		Two of the international agreements are the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
		It was established mainly in response to concerns that an increase in krill catches in the Southern Ocean could have a serious effect on populations of krill and other marine life; particularly on birds, seals and fish, which mainly depend on krill for food.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/International/index.asp (1093 words)

	1777. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The Treaty of San Ildefonso assigned Colonia and disputed Paraguayan territory to Spain.
		By the Treaty of Versailles (1783), Spain recovered Florida and relinquished the Bahamas.
		By the Treaty of Basel Spain relinquished the eastern two-thirds of Española to France.
	www.bartelby.com /67/907.html (194 words)

	About the Dominican Republic
		This first Spanish colony experienced many “highs” and “lows” in its history, among them the 1605 and 1606 evacuations that destroyed all of the island´s northwestern and southwestern communities, giving way to buccaneer and pirate settlements in a region that was later to become a French colony.
		The Treaty of Aranjuez later ratified this situation by establishing the boundaries between the colonies ruled by France and Spain.
		The entire island was ceded to France in 1795, through the Peace Treaty of Basel.
	www.svsu.edu /~kerman/caribbean/geninfo.htm (589 words)

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