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May 28, 2001
At a conference in Stockholm to sign the international Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), officials from 120 countries and a host of environmental and civil society groups have gathered to celebrate the adoption of a treaty that will restrict a group of chemicals the United Nations has labelled the most dangerous in the world. The convention will enter into force once ratified by 50 countries.
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