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Article 11.Border measuresA. Negotiation textsSecond session: 8-12 March 1999Argentina and United States of America (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.1)“Article 9 1“Border controls“1. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to detectand prevent trafficking in [women and children] [persons] between its territory andthat of any other State Party by strengthening border controls, including by checkingpersons and travel or identity documents and, where appropriate, by inspecting andseizing vehicles and vessels.“2. Each State Party shall adopt such training and other measures as may benecessary to ensure that victims of trafficking who are detected being trafficked bymeans of legal or illegal migration receive appropriate protection from the traffickers.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.2)“Article 9“Border controls“1. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary to detectand prevent trafficking in persons between its territory and that of any other StateParty by strengthening border controls, including by checking persons and travel oridentity documents and, where appropriate, by inspecting and seizing vehicles andvessels.“2. Each State Party shall adopt such training and other measures as may benecessary to ensure that victims of such trafficking, who are detected being traffickedby means of legal or illegal migration receive appropriate protection from thetraffickers.”1Australia and Canada suggested that several articles in this protocol should be based on articles contained in theproposals of the United States and Canada regarding the draft migrants protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1). One of thearticles thus adapted was the present one.403