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    AGREEMENT ON THE NETWORK OF AQUACULTURE CENTRES IN ASIA
                        AND THE PACIFIC

Objective
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     To assist the member States in their efforts to expand
aquaculture development.

Summary of provisions
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     (a)  An Organization for the Network of Aquaculture Centres in
Asia and the Pacific (NACA) was established (art. 1);

     (b)  The Organization is to consolidate the establishment of
an expanded network of aquaculture centres to share the
responsibility of research, training and information exchange
essential to aquaculture development in the region (art. 3);

     (c)  The Organization is to conduct disciplinary and
interdisciplinary research on selected aquafarming systems for
adaptation or improvement of technologies and for development of new
technologies.

Membership
==========

     Open for ratification and accession by States invited to
participate in the Conference of Plenipotentiaries at which the
Agreement was adopted.  Any State that was not invited to
participate in the Conference of Plenipotentiaries may accede to the
Agreement subject to prior approval by not less than two-thirds of
the Members.

     Date of adoption                  8. 1.1988
     Place of adoption                 Bangkok, Thailand
     Date of entry into force         11.11.1990
     Language                         English
     Depositary                       Food and Agriculture
                                      Organization of the United Nations

     Participant                      Ratification/
                                      Accession (Ac)
     -----------                      --------------

     Bangladesh                        15. 5.1990
     Cambodia                          23. 4.1992 (Ac)
     China                             11. 1.1990 (Ac)
     Democratic People's Republic
       of Korea                        23. 5.1990 (Ac)
     Hong Kong                         14.12.1988
     India                              4. 6.1992 (Ac)
     Malaysia                           4. 7.1991 (Ac)
     Myanmar                           22. 5.1990 (Ac)
     Nepal                              4. 1.1990
     Pakistan                          28. 1.1991 (Ac)
     Sri Lanka                          5. 1.1989
     Viet Nam                           2. 2.1989 (Ac)

Secretariat of the Agreement
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the  
  United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
Italy
Cables:      FOODAGRI ROME
Telex:       610181 FAO1
             625852 FAO 1/625853 FAO 1
Telephone:   57971
Fax:         57973152
             5782610/57975155

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