In March 1989 Hungary became the first East European state to accede to the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (under which states agreed not to expel refugees or return them to their homeland if they would face persecution there).

In 1973 the Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Marine Pollution by Substances other than Oil was adopted extending the provision of the 1969 Convention to other hazardous substances.

United Nations approves Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (aka 1967 Protocol).

Its legal basis is the multilateral treaty Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of 1891, as well as the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement (1989).

The international community defines a refugee by the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

As a signatory to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, the United States is bound by international law to afford protections to this most vulnerable group, including the right to apply for asylum.

The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (also known as the New York Protocol) entered into force on 4 October 1967.

The English text is at Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967.

I wish to say in response to Mrs Izquierdo Rojo' s question that refugee status is governed throughout the world by the 1951 Geneva Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.

The Presidency is pleased that the Protocol relating to unexploded ordnance has entered into force.