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Jim
Willis recalled that a number of resolutions were not agreed at
Johannesburg due to time constraints, including those on interim
arrangements, a capacity assistance network, liability and
redress, and tribute to the Government of the Kingdom of Sweden.
Reminding delegates that this was a celebratory meeting, he urged
that delegates work expeditiously and with the spirit of
compromise
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Chair
Buccini proposed that members of the INC Bureau – Maria Cristina
Cardenas Fischer, Colombia, Darka Hamel, Croatia, and Ephraim Buti
Mathebula,
South Africa, – be elected, noting that a new nominee was
required by the Asia-Pacific group. Ali
Abu Hasani, Iran, was later elected from the Asia Pacific Region
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Mohammad
Rezza Salamat, IRAN,
on behalf of the G-77/CHINA, proposed that the Rules of Procedure
for future INCs be amended to increase the Bureau membership from
five to ten members. With a note regarding the G-77/China
proposal, delegates adopted the full Rules of Procedure mutatis
mutandis
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G-77/CHINA
introduced an alternative resolution on capacity building and
capacity assistance network (UNEP/POPS/CONF/PM/CRP.2), emphasizing
that it is the prerogative of the signatories to agree on how the
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Dollacker, Chair, International Relations &
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Regarding
the resolution on interim arrangements, the G-77/CHINA, said the
subsidiary body referred to should not list chemicals during the
interim period. The G-77/CHINA, supported by CANADA, the US, NEW
ZEALAND and AUSTRALIA, and the RUSSIAN FEDERATION, proposed
deleting paragraphs referring to the interim subsidiary body and
replacing them with a paragraph inviting the INC to recommend
draft rules of procedure, composition, and operational guidelines
for the functioning of the subsidiary body to be established under
Article 19 (Conference of the Parties) of the Convention for the
consideration by the COP at its first session.
The EU supported language on a subsidiary body to look at possible new
candidate POPs before entry into force. SWITZERLAND suggested a
chemicals review committee similar to that established during the
interim period under the Rotterdam Convention. NORWAY said that
although the decision to add new chemicals must be taken by COP,
the process for identifying may take considerable time and that
the procedure for a subsidiary body should be decided by the INC.
In the afternoon and after EU consultations, the EU, supported by
POLAND, proposed adding to the G-77/China's proposal language on
establishing an interim subsidiary body to carry out the functions
entrusted to it in accordance with Article 8 (Listing of chemicals
in the Annexes). The G-77/CHINA, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, the RUSSIAN
FEDERATION, the US and JAPAN objected
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