Baltic Marine Environment
Protection Commission

 

Baltic Marine Environment
Protection Commission

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40 years of HELCOM work 1

The 1974 Helsinki Convention was signed on 22 March 1974 by (from left) the Ministers of Denmark (Holger Hansen), Finland (Jermu Laine), German Democratic Republic (Hans Reichelt); the Secretary of State of the German Federal Republic (Hans-Georg Sachs); and the Ministers of Poland (Jerzy Kusiak), Sweden (Svante Lundkvist), and the Soviet Union (E. E. Alexchevsky).