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Message to the Senate Transmitting an Amendment to the Protocol to the Convention on International Expositions

January 27, 1983

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit herewith an amendment to the Protocol of November 30, 1972 (TIAS 9948) to the Convention of November 22, 1928 concerning International Expositions (TIAS 6548, 6549) with a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to its acceptance.

The purpose of the amendment is to permit France to commemorate the French Revolution in a universal exposition at Paris in 1989, and the United States and Spain to commemorate the discovery of the Americas in a two-site universal exposition at Chicago and Seville in 1992. The present provisions of the Protocol do not permit the holding of a universal exposition in 1992 and another universal exposition only three years earlier in 1989. A minimum interval of seven years is required by the Protocol.

I submit herewith the Report of the Secretary of State on the amendment.

I strongly support the holding of a universal exposition to commemorate the discovery of the Americas and have previously designated Chicago as the site in the United States for that purpose. I recommend that the Senate give prompt consideration to the amendment and advice and consent to its acceptance.

RONALD REAGAN

The White House,

January 27, 1983.

Ronald Reagan, Message to the Senate Transmitting an Amendment to the Protocol to the Convention on International Expositions Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245842

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