The "Great Green Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms" was legislated in Libya during 1988, and proclaimed in Baida on 12th June, 1988. it included references and praise to Gaddafi during its preamble, in the version announced via the Libyan General People's Congress (GPC). On 12th June 1999, an International Green Charter was proclaimed in English, essentially a translation of the 26 articles of the original charter, but without reference to Gaddafi.