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Photos from Biodiversity COP-3
Updated 14 November 1996The President of Argentina and officials from other countries addressed COP-3 as the Ministerial Segment opened Wednesday. Photos of Menem and some of the ministers appear below.
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Presidential address: Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem spoke to COP-3 Wednesday. He joined CBD Executive Secretary Calestous Juma, COP-3 President Maria Julia Alsogaray, UNEP Executive Director Elizabeth Dowdeswell and others at the rostrum, and then spoke of the need to halt the destruction of our own habitat. |
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Ministerial Segment: China's Minister of the Environmental Protection Agency Xie Zhenhua (above left) said funding of the Global Environment Facility is inadequate; Mexican Secretary of Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries Julia Cararbras Lillo (above right) said in situ conservation should not be hampered by intellectual property rights concerns; and Germany's environment minister (left) said agriculture must be made sustainable. UK Environment Minister John Gummer (below left) said the CBD should not be a poor relation to the Climate Convention and urged the US to ratify the CBD; Barbados Minister of Health and Environment Elizabeth Thompson emphasized marine conservation,, sustainable fisheries and land-based sources of marine pollution. |
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