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Treaties of the United States

  • Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic RelationsThe Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, announced on the 15th of December 1978, changed the shape of international politics in…
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeOn the 9th of May 1992, in a conference room in New York, negotiators from around the world put the finishing touches on a document that would bind nations…
  • Montreal ProtocolThe Montreal Protocol carries a distinction no other treaty in United Nations history holds: it is the only international agreement ever ratified by all 198…
  • Paris AgreementThe Paris Agreement was adopted on the 12th of December 2015, inside a conference hall outside Paris, by 195 nations and the European Union.
  • START IIGeorge H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin met in Moscow on the 3rd of January 1993 to sign a historic agreement. This event marked the official start of the START…
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsThe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 16th of December 1966, yet it would not…
  • Convention on Certain Conventional WeaponsThe Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons was concluded in Geneva on the 10th of October 1980, born from a question that arms negotiators had long…
  • Outer Space TreatyThe Outer Space Treaty was opened for signature on the 27th of January 1967, with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union all signing on…
  • Potsdam AgreementThe Potsdam Agreement was signed on the 1st of August 1945, at Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, as the guns fell silent across Europe but war still raged in…
  • Washington Naval TreatyOn the 6th of February 1922, five of the world's most powerful nations put their signatures to a document that would reshape naval warfare for two decades.
  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsThe Non-Proliferation Treaty, known almost universally as the NPT, opened for signature in 1968 with a single overriding fear driving its creation: that…
  • North Atlantic TreatyThe North Atlantic Treaty, also called the Washington Treaty, was signed on the 4th of April 1949 in Washington, D.C., and it created the legal foundation…
  • Antarctic Treaty SystemThe Antarctic Treaty System governs an entire continent where no human being has ever been born. On the 1st of December 1959, twelve nations signed an…
  • Trust Territory of the Pacific IslandsThe Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was a place measured in ocean, not land. In 1969, just 100 occupied islands held a combined land area of 700…
  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban TreatyOn the 5th of August 1963, three governments gathered in Moscow to sign a document that had taken nearly two decades of argument, scientific dispute, and…