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Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Hague, The Netherlands; 13 - 24 Novermber 2000
 

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Photo highlights from Monday, 13 November

Photos from the Welcoming Ceremony with Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

Queen Beatrix enters the Plenary Hall
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, Her Majasty Queen Beatrix, and UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer
Photos from the Welcoming Ceremony

COP-6 President Jan Pronk, Minstry of the Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Bob Watson, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, gives the keynote address
Wim Deetman, Mayor of the Hague (left), and Dutch actor Aus Greidanus reads from written by Dutch national poet Gerrit Komrij

Heads of delegations attend a special viewing of an IMAX film produced for COP-6
Left to right: Delegates enter the IMAX theater;UNFCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, Queen Beatrix, UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer and COP-6 President Jan Pronk in the IMAX theater; and delegates applaud after the film's conclusion
Images from the film
Left to right: Queen Beatrix meets with the filmmakers; Jan Pronk and Queen Beatrix; the Queen departs

Photos from the official opening of COP-6
Left to right: The dias during the opening Plenary; FCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar, Secretary of the COP Richard Kinley and outgoing COP President Jan Szyszko; and SBSTA Coordinator Dennis Tirpak and Coordinator Janos Pasztor peruse the daily literature

SBI Chair John Ashe congatulates outgoing COP President Jan Szyszko and Jan Szyszko addresses the Plenary before departing
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar addresses the Plenary
Jan Pronk after his election as COP-6 President; and Secretary of the COP Richard Kinley
Left to right: Deputy COP Secretary Seth Osafo, SBSTA Chair Harold Dovland, SBSTA Coordinator Dennis Tirpak, and Coordinator Janos Pasztor; and Cutajar, Pronk and Kinley
 
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