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USSR Becomes IUCN's Fifty-fourth Nation-state Member

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Elizabeth Hopkins
Affiliation:
East European Programme, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Avenue du Mont-Blanc, 1196 Gland, Switzerland.
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1991

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* A notice at the time indicated that ‘The Soviet decision was communicated to the Union by Dr Vladimir Sakharov, Head of International Relations of the Ministry for Nature Conservation and Environmmental Protection of the USSR, [when he was] attending a meeting in Geneva… of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. The United States also [only] recently joined the World Conservation Union as a state member.’—Ed.