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Nature 391, 219 (15 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/34515

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Europe brings in first international ban

Declan Butler

At a ceremony in Paris on Monday (12 January), 17 European countries signed a protocol added to the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine that bans the use of human cloning for reproductive purposes — the first legally binding international agreement to do so.Two countries were conspicuous by their absence among the signatories: the United Kingdom and Germany.