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Home / Heard@HQ / Heard at Headquarters 2004 / January-March

U.S. balks at new international ID (3/31)

The International Labor Organization has adopted a new biometric identity verification system for mariners, but the United States won’t accept the new documents.

Read the ILO press release here

The full text of Convention 185 is available here

 

 
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