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First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

24-28 March 2014 | UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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Intro - 24 March - 25 March - 26 March - 27 March - 28 March

Highlights for Friday, 28 March 2014

On Friday, delegates convened in open-ended contact groups on the science-policy interface, chemicals and waste, and in plenary to discuss preparations for UNEA for its sessions in 2014 and 2016. In the afternoon, the CPR Bureau met with heads of regional groups to agree on intersessional work and preparations for UNEA in June.

During the closing plenary in the afternoon, delegates agreed to forward draft UNEA decisions to the 127th meeting of the CPR for further consideration. CPR Chair Soemarno closed the meeting at 6:42pm.

Delegates from the EU consulting before the start of closing plenary

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP, consulting
with Toshiko Ohga, Deputy Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

UNEA AGENDA

L-R: UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia; Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP; Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur; and Toshiko Ohga, Deputy Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

Masa Nagai, UNEP

UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw

Ben Salacakau, Fiji

Amb. Lynette Poulton Kamakura, US

Kare Chawicha Debessa, Ethiopia

MINISTERIAL DIALOGUE

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner

Amb. Johny Balza, Venezuela

Amb. Marcela Nicodemos, Brazil

Amb. John Moreti, Botswana

Amb. María Eugenia Correa Olarte,
Colombia

Amb. Minata Samate, Burkina Faso

Amb. Martin Kimani, Kenya

Hugo Schally, EU

CPR Vice-Chair Rosemary
Semafumu-Mukasa, Uganda

Damaso Luna, Mexico

Zia Ul Islam, Pakistan

Manuel Oira III, the Philippines

Rasool Sahib Ghazi Sharba, Iraq

Alain André Nonouka Gomat, Congo

CLOSING PLENARY

L-R: UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner; UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR,
Indonesia; Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP; and Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur

Fr. Etienne Triaille, Holy See

Sunita Singh, India

Batbold Otgoid, Mongolia

Amb. Ittiporn Boonpracong, Thailand

Belsis Llorente, Cuba

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia, gaveled the meeting to a close at
6:42 pm

L-R: UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner and Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR,
Indonesia

OECPR SNAPSHOTS

OECPR participants from stakeholders and Major Groups

L-R: Neeyati Patel and Jacqueline McGlade, UNEP

L-R: Carlos Martin-Novella, Mamadou Kane, and Alberto Pacheco
Capella, UNEP

L-R: Yingxian Xia, China; Lei Zhang, China; Sun Guoshun, China; Jamil Ahmad, Deputy Director, UNEP Office in New York,
and Zhang Jieqing, China

L-R: Jan Strandanaes, Stakeholder Forum complimenting Sheila Aggarwal-Khan,
UNEP and her team for their work.

Delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean

L-R: Mariel Jiménez, Costa Rica; Lineth Arcía, Panama; and Isabel Gamarra de Fox, Paraguay

Related Links

Meeting resources

Annotated agenda

Major Groups and Stakeholders Participation in the 2014 OECPR and UNEA

CPR general information

Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.1

Report on the Implementation of decision 27/2: Contributions by the regional ministerial environment forums for which UNEP serves as the Secretariat(27/2, OP15), Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.2

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Implementation of decision 27/4 on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.1

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Environment Management Group’s work - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.2

State of the environment: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4

Support structures and processes for keeping the world environment situation under review, including a progress report on UNEP Live: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4/

UNEP’s access-to-information policy

Report on Montevideo Programme IV midterm process

IISD RS resources

IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-seventh Session of the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC27/GMEF), 18-22 February 2013, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

IISD RS coverage of the Twelfth Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council (GCSS-12/GMEF), 20-22 February 2012, UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)