Releases

Remarks
--10/08/04  U.S. Intervention on CoP 13 Prop. 50: Inclusion of Gonystylus spp. in Appendix II with Annotation #1; Judge Craig Manson, Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior; Remarks at CoP-13; Washington, DC
--04/22/04  Remarks at 2004 Earth Day "Environmental Business Exhibition"; Secretary Colin L. Powell; Washington, DC
--04/22/04  President Announces Wetlands Initiative on Earth Day; President George W. Bush; Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve; Wells, Maine
--07/28/03  President Bush Discusses New Initiative to Stop Illegal Logging; President George W. Bush; Washington, DC
--07/28/03  Remarks on the Launch of President Bush's Initiative Against Illegal Logging ; Secretary Colin L. Powell; Benjamin Franklin Room; Washington, DC
--06/17/03  U.S.-Chile Sign Agreement on Environmental Cooperation; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Remarks at the Signing of an Agreement Between the United States and the Republic of Chile on Environmental Cooperation; Santiago, Chile
--06/13/03  Memorandum of Intent Between the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Singapore on Cooperation in Environmental Matters; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Remarks at the Signing of a Memorandum of Intent; U.S. Department of State, Treaty Room
--05/22/03  Environmental Partnerships in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Region; John Turner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and Head of U.S. Delegation; Remarks to the Environment for Europe Ministerial Roundtable; Kiev, Ukraine
--12/10/02  Statement On Agenda Item A.l.25: Oceans and the Law of the Sea; Ambassador Mary Beth West, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries; Statement During the Fifty-seventh Session of the United Nations in Plenary Session; New York, New York
--10/15/02  Global Environment Facility Council; Jeffry M. Burnam, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment; Remarks to the Global Environmental Facility Council; Beijing, China
--05/14/02  Hearing on Persistent Organic Pollutants; Jeffry M. Burnam, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment; Statement before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate; Washington, DC
--05/07/02  Environmental Treaties; John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Washington, DC
--04/17/02  Convention on Biological Diversity; Jeffry Burnam, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment; Statement to the Ministerial Roundtable, Sixth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity; The Hague, The Netherlands
--06/20/01  The U.S. Commitment to Combating Desertification; Kenneth C. Brill, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Remarks prepared for presentation to the conference "Breaking the Links Between Land Degradation, Food Insecurity, and Water Scarcity," sponsored by Earth Action and the International Fund for Agricultural Development; Washington, DC

Press Releases
--11/26/04  Montreal Protocol Meeting Concludes
--10/07/04  CITES Conference Votes to Tightly Regulate International Trade in Ramin
--06/29/04  United States and Morocco Sign Joint Statement on Environmental Cooperation
--05/18/04  U.S., Australia Sign Statement on Environmental Cooperation
--05/17/04  Sea Turtle Conservation and Shrimp Imports
--10/22/03  Western Hemisphere Migratory Bird Conference
--06/17/03  Joint Statement of the United States and the Republic of Chile on the Signing of an Environmental Cooperation Agreement
--02/13/03  International Mercury Pollution Proposal Adopted at United Nations Environment Program
--12/04/02  U.S.-Canada Yukon River Salmon Agreement Signed
--11/18/02  Agencies Take Emergency Action To Defend Against Asian Carp Invasion
--08/07/02  U.S. Pledges $500 Million for Fund to Combat Global Environmental Threats
--06/27/02  U.S. and Conservation Groups Sign Debt-for-Nature Agreements with Peru
--06/20/02  USDA Releases Hold on Selected Bigleaf Mahogany From Brazil
--04/11/02  President Bush Sends the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to Senate for Ratification
--02/01/02  World Wetlands Day, February 2
--09/21/01  Forest Law Enforcement and Governance East Asia Ministerial Conference
--05/23/01  U.S. Signs Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
--02/01/01  World Wetlands Day (Revised)

Fact Sheets
--04/22/04  Wetlands Initiative Announced on Earth Day
--07/28/03  The President’s Initiative Against Illegal Logging
--06/26/03  Environmental Cooperation Between the United States and Brazil
--11/04/02  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
--03/24/02  Approval of Central American-U.S. Joint Declaration Action Plan
--05/04/01  Negotiations on Revising the International Undertaking for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
--05/04/01  The Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Other Releases
--10/08/04  International Law Enforcement Academy -- Bangkok
--11/05/03  Information for U.S. Government Funded Researchers Collecting In Situ Genetic Resources Outside the United States
--09/19/03  Joint Press Release on the Brazil-U.S. Common Agenda on the Environment
--07/02/03  Memorandum of Intent Between the United States of America and the Republic of Singapore on Cooperation in Environmental Matters
--06/30/03  Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Chile on Environmental Cooperation

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