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18th Session of the Subsidiary Bodies  
Bonn, June 4 - 13, 2003

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SUMMARY 

SB-18 Highlights

 

SBSTA PLENARY
 



SBSTA Chair Halldór Thorgeirsson from Iceland (center) gavels the meeting to a close

 




Morocco, on behalf of the G77/China


Mauritius on behalf of AOSIS

 

Today SBSTA and SBI convened in Plenary. The SBSTA adopted conclusions on the IPCC TAR, sinks in the CDM, “good practices” in policies and measures, other matters, and the report of the session.

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SBSTA Chair Halldór Thorgeirsson from Iceland (center)

 


 



Russian Federation

 

 


David Warrilow, UK

 


SBI PLENARY

 

 


(Left to right:)The SBI Panel with SBI Coordinator Luiz Gomez-Echeverri, SD Coordintor Janos Pasztor, Vitaly Matsarski (Secretariat) Chair Daniela Stoycheva (Bulgaria) and two other members of the Secretariat



Tibor Farago, Hungary, accepting the appointment of Hungary as COP-9 President

Robert Mason, United Kingdom

 

In the morning, the SBI adopted conclusions on all agenda items, with the exception of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 and the report of the session. Following lengthy informal consultations, the SBI re-convened to adopt the programme budget, and also adopted the session report.

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Raul Estrada, Argentina

 
Jim Penman (UK)
 

Delegate from Croatia


Delegates from United Arab Emirates

 


EU delegates confer during the SBI Plenary


Luiz Gomez-Echeverri (SBI coordinator), Tahar Hadj-Sadok, and Joke Waller-Hunter, UNFCCC Executive Secretary

 


John Ashe reports on the budget


Canada and Burkina Faso discuss the outcomes of the informal consultations on
LDC fund

 


Algeria thanks Tahar Hadj-Sadok, a fellow Algerian for
all his work and wishes him luck


Tahar receives flowers, with SBI Coordinator Luiz Gomez-Echeverr, SBI Chair Daniela Stoycheva and Joke Waller-Hunter


 


Tahar Hadj-Sadok with members of the Secretariat

Informal Consultations of the Programme Budget Group

 

 


 
 

Photos (above, left to right): EU members consult on the budget; Tahar Hadj-Sadok with Joke Waller-Hunter; and Waller-Hunter with SBI Chair Daniela Stoycheva



   
Photos (left to right): Tahar Hadj-Sadok with John Ashe and Daniel Reifsnyder, US; and delegates consulting on the budget (right photos)