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	Methuen Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It refers to John Methuen (c.1650-1706) who served as a Member of Parliament; Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Privy Councilor; Envoy and then Ambassador Extraordinary to Portugal where he negotiated the "Methuen" Treaty of 1703 which cemented allegiances in the War of Spanish Succession and created favorable trade terms for Port wine.
		This was a commercial treaty between Portugal and England which established that English textiles would be accepted in Portugal and that the Portuguese wines would be preferred in England, by paying only two thirds of the rates settled with the French.
		In 1703 the Methuen Treaty was signed in Lisbon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Methuen_Treaty (191 words)

	Roy's Russian Aircraft Resource Photos
		Although these four new nuclear states agreed to abide by the Soviet Union's START Treaty obligations through the Lisbon Protocol of May 1992, political uncertainty in the new nations raised concerns about the ability of the former Soviet states to control their nuclear weapons, fissile material, and nuclear technology, along with their chemical weapons stockpiles.
		The treaty called for the elimination of an entire class of weapons, specifically ground-launched ballistic missiles and ground-launched cruise missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
		The Threshold Test Ban Treaty and Protocols were ratified by both the United States Senate and the Supreme Soviet by November, and they entered into force on December 11, 1990 In June 1990, OSIA inspectors also took part in the first inspections under its new mission of monitoring chemical weapons agreements.
	www.royfc.com /osia.html (3559 words)

	Working Group on Criteria and Procedures for the Assessment of Foreign Qualifications: Draft Reccommendations on Criteria and Procedures (Brussels, May, 2000)
		This is in accordance with the principles of the Lisbon Recognition Convention as well as the European Union Directives on professional recognition.
		As a treaty between States, the Convention covers qualifications belonging to the systems of education of Parties.
		Competent recognition authorities and other assessment agencies should be encouraged to focus on the learning outcomes and competencies, as well as the quality of the delivery of an educational programme and to consider its duration as merely one indication of the level of achievement reached at the end of the programme.
	www.cepes.ro /hed/recogn/groups/criteria.htm (3559 words)

	Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum - Documents
		The Second Congress of the Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum
		The Lisbon European Council - An Agenda of Economic and Social Renewal for Europe, Lisbon 2000
		Provisional consolidated version of the draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, Brussels, 25 June 2004
	www.pfsl.pl /news.php?id=104 (3559 words)

	The Spanish-Portuguese War, 1801
		In 1807, Spain and France, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, agreed to invade and partition Portugal.
		In June, the Treaty of Badajoz was signed, according to which Portugal entered into an alliance with France, ceded Olivenza to Spain and Brazilian territory bordering on French Guyana to France.
		The Treaty of Badajoz did not provide a lasting solution.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/napwars/spanport18001801.html (343 words)

	Chronology of Napoleon's Life
		Oct 27.--Secret treaty of Fontainbleau between France and Spain for the partition of Portugal; Junot enters Lisbon, 30th November; Royal Family withdraw to Brazil.
		Dec 26.--Treaty of Presburg; Austria cedes her share of Venetian lands to Kingdom of Italy, and the Tyrol to Bavaria, which, with Würtemberg, is recognized as a Kingdom.
		Nov 20.--Second Treaty of Paris; France restricted to limits of 1790; losing Savoy, etc., pays an indemnity, and receives an army of occupation.
	www.napoleonic-literature.com /Chronology.html (343 words)

	Algeria 2005 Investment Climate Statement
		Algeria is a signatory of the Paris Industrial Property Convention on Copyrights, the Berne convention for the protection of literary and artistic works, as well as the Madrid Arrangement and Lisbon Agreement for the protection of appellations of origin and their international registration.
		As of May 2005, Algeria intended to ratify the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) during the course of 2005.
		Patents, copyrights, trademarks and integrated circuits are currently protected under 2003 laws, industrial designs and models under 1966 laws, and appellations of origin under 1976 laws.
	www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2005/51356.htm (4374 words)

	The Erudite Wit of Ben Jonson [Timeline]
		Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognises independence of Portugal
		Treaty of Preobrazhenskoe signed by Denmark, Russia, Poland, and Saxony for partition of Swed.
		Treaty between Louis XIV and Leopold I concerning future partition of Span.
	www.hearts-ease.org /cgi-bin/timeline.cgi?ID=28&data=conservatory (4374 words)

	THE ORDER OF OUR LADY OF THE CONCEPTION OF VILA VIÇOSA
		By the Treaty of Lisbon of 1668, Spain finally recognized the independence of Portugal and gave up any further attempt to incorporate her people into the Spanish Empire.
		Lisbon was treated as a colonial outpost with the Spanish taking full advantage of the huge wealth generated by her overseas possessions.
		After some bitter fighting, King Miguel's army was unable to resist the foreign invasion and, with the occupation of Lisbon by the forces of the Duke of Terceira, on July 24th, 1833, the conservative government was finished.
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/portugal/vilavic.htm (3453 words)

	Australian Treaty Series 1901
		Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Portugal for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals (Lisbon, 17 October 1892) [1901] ATS 86
		Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of the Equator [Ecuador] for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals (Quito, 20 September 1880) [1901] ATS 30
		Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Republic of Bolivia for the Mutual Surrender of Fugitive Criminals (Lima, 22 February 1892) [1901] ATS 14
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaties/1901/index.html (3453 words)

	Security in an Undivided Europe - Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
		For that reason, the 30 State Parties of the CFE Treaty, meeting on the fringes of the OSCE Summit in Lisbon in December 1996, agreed to negotiations to adapt the Treaty to the new security situation in Europe.
		When the Treaty was signed at the Paris CSCE Summit on 18 November 1990, the East-West confrontation was over and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact could be foreseen.
		The Two-plus-Four Treaty already prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of the former GDR.
	www.fas.org /man/nato/ifnatost.htm (3453 words)

	The Portuguese War, 1807-1808
		In 1807, Spain and Portugal signed the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau, in which they agreed on partitioning Portugal into a Duchy for the Duke of Godoy, a Kingdom for the Spanish Bourbon sideline that held Etruria and a part to be annexed into Spain; Etruria was to be annexed by France.
		On October 27th, France and Portugal signed a secret treaty; Lisbon was taken by Junot October 30th.
		Treaties concerning Olivenza, from Olivenza International Dispute, has treaty excerpts in English translation
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/napwars/spanport18071808.html (313 words)

	CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA - LoveToKnow Article on CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA
		In 1703 she supported the Methuen Treaty, which cemented still further the alliance between Portugal and England, and itf 1704 she was appointed regent of Portugal during the illness of her brother King Pedro II., her administration being distinguished by several successes gained over the Spaniards.
		She was early regarded as a useful medium for contracting an alliance with England, more necessary than ever to Portugal after the treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 whereby Portugal was ostensibly abandoned by France.
		She took up her residence at the palace of Bemposta, built by herself, near Lisbon.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CA/CATHERINE_OF_BRAGANZA.htm (863 words)

	Napoleon at the Gates of Baghdad
		According to the terms of the Treaty of Fontainbleau of Oct. 27, 1807, he was granted the right to garrison his troops in key cities in northern Spain, to protect the lines of communication and supply of his army which was to invade Portugal.
		The provisions of the Treaty of Tilsit had ended the War of the Third Coalition, and accorded him virtually total control over continental Europe.
		In return, Napoleon pledged to Spanish Chief Minister Manuel Godoy—a thoroughly duplicitous character already on the French payroll—that Spain would be awarded southern Portugal (sans Lisbon, which the French would retain) as a new principality.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2005/3213napol_spain.html (3964 words)

	The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
		Under terms of the 1867 Treaty of London; the European powers recognized and guaranteed the sovereignty and neutrality of the Grand Duchy in perpetuity and the 7,000 man Prussian garrison was withdrawn from the city’s fortress.
		La Grande Belgique was stillborn but articles 40 and 41 of the Versailles Treaty expressed the intent of the Allied Powers to end German rights in Luxembourg in no uncertain terms.
		Belgian demands to incorporate the Grand Duchy and the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and South Limburg along with the German territories of Moresnet, Eupen and Malmedy in a Greater Belgium were rejected at the Paris Peace Conference.
	worldatwar.net /nations/luxembourg/narrative.html (3964 words)

	Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I)
		Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine committed in the Lisbon Protocol and its associated documents to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non-nuclear weapon states in the shortest possible time, and to eliminate all nuclear weapons and all strategic offensive arms from their territories within the process of achieving their START reductions.
		Reductions to equal aggregate levels in strategic offensive arms, carried out in three phases over seven years from the date the treaty enters into force.
		In anticipation of entry into force within a few months of treaty signing, technical characteristic exhibitions of strategic ballistic missiles and distinguishability exhibitions of heavy bombers began in September 1991 and were completed in March 1992.
	www.fas.org /nuke/control/start1 (750 words)

	START
		The Lisbon Protocol to the START I Treaty was signed on May 23, 1992, and was orchestrated to accommodate for the breakup of the former Soviet Union.
		The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, but the Russian Duma initially postponed ratification in response to the U.S. and British strikes against Iraq on December 25, 1998 and again on April 2, 1999, because of the NATO bombing against Yugoslavia.
		The parties of the treaty were designated as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, the legal successors of the former Soviet Union.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1805.html (539 words)

	PSR: Strategic Arms Recution Treaty I (START I)
		Prior to the Lisbon Protocol, the original Treaty was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and the United States that reduces and limits the number of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles and the number of warheads on them by 30 to 40 percent.
		Strategic Arms Recution Treaty I (START I) START I was signed in Moscow on July 31, 1991 by United States President George Bush and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union.
		The Treaty permits for data exchanges and notifications on strategic facilities and systems, exchanges of telemetry data from missile flight tests, a ban on encryption of telemetry data, twelve different types of on-site inspections and exhibitions, and continuous monitoring at mobile ICBM assembly plants.
	www.psr.org /home.cfm?id=pressroom50 (971 words)

	Ambassade du Luxembourg
		The major topics at the Agenda of the Luxembourg presidency are the Stability and growth Pact, the Lisbon strategy, the Financial Perspectives 2007-2013, the Constitutional Treaty such as the enlargement of the EU (Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Croatia).
		The ratification of the Treaty is one of Luxembourg’s great challenges during the presidency of the European Union Council, which it has the honor to host during the first semester 2005.
		The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951.
	www.luxembourgembassy.dk /?menuIDX=43&parentFkey=20 (2591 words)

	MSN Encarta - Portuguese Empire
		By the Treaty of Madrid (1750) the boundaries of Brazil were agreed with Spain, although disputes over the colony of Sacramento, on River Plate, continued until its renunciation by Portugal in the Treaty of San Ildefonso (1777).
		There were some signs of settler discontent with rule from Lisbon but the situation was transformed by the arrival of the Portuguese court in Rio de Janeiro in 1808, in flight from the armies of Napoleon I.
		When the Portuguese liberal revolutionaries of 1820 sought to reassert the predominance of Portugal, Brazil seceded in 1822 under Crown Prince Pedro, who as Pedro I became emperor of a nation recognized as fully independent in 1825.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781533808/Portuguese_Empire.html (2006 words)

	Foreign Office
		The first one was in 1750 with the signing of the Treaty of Madrid, when Alexandre de Gusmão negotiated the borders issue established by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
		The second was in 1808 with the transfer of the Portuguese Court from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro as a result of Portugal being occupied by Napoleon's forces; lastly, in the years following independence in 1822, came the process of the recognition of Brazil during the monarchic period.
		Responsible for advising the President of the Republic of Brazil on the formulation and execution of Brazilian foreign policy, the Foreign Office - Itamaraty, as it is known - has three landmarks in its history.
	www.mre.gov.br /cdbrasil/itamaraty/web/ingles/relext/mre/apresent/apresent.htm (381 words)

	CHAPTER 1. SETTLEMENT AND SLAVERY, TO 1719
		In the treaty, it was agreed that territories lying east of an imaginary meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands would belong to Portugal, and the lands to the west of that imaginary line would be under Spanish control.
		In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal, settled the question of possession of the lands to be discovered.
		The most remarkable Jesuit defender of the Indians was Antonio Vieira, He abandoned his position as chief adviser to the king in Lisbon to become a missionary in Brazil in 1653.
	www.vernonjohns.org /plcooney/brhsettl.html (3489 words)

	Louisiana as seen from 18th Century Texas
		They were joined by Portugal, who broke its commitment established in the Treaty of Lisbon of the same year.
		As a consequence of the San Lorenzo Treaty, Spain had to accept the 31st parallel as the border limit of Western Florida and at the same time, the freedom of navigation in the Mississippi for Americans.
		Meanwhile, the alliance between Spain and France was formally reestablished with the Treaty of Seville, signed November 9th, 1729.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheBicentennial/Symposium2002/Papers/Romero_Juan.htm (3489 words)

	Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies
		Between 1359 and 1378 he served without distinction in several campaigns in France, Spain, and Brittany, and his one independent command, the Lisbon expedition of 1381—82 to aid King Ferdinand of Portugal against Castile, was a failure.
		This treaty, less onerous to France than that of London, took its final form in the Treaty of Calais, ratified by both kings (October 1360).
		Duke John of Lancaster "of Gaunt"-[18463] was born in 3-1340 in Abbey of St. Bavon, Ghent, Belgium and died on 2-3-1399 in London at age 58.
	www.livelyroots.com /kings/d13.htm (4619 words)

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