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REGIONAL/SUBREGIONAL MEETINGS
FORUM ON CILSS/ECOWAS SUBREGIONAL ACTION PROGRAMME: CILSS will host a subregional forum for West African countries in Niamey, Niger, from 12-15 February 1997, to develop a subregional action programme. Contact: Aboupakai or Cissé Meriam Issa, CILSS, BP 7049, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; tel: +226 03-62-51; fax: +226 31-19-82/31-58-37.
IGAD WORKSHOP ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: IGAD, in collaboration with UNSO, will host a subregional workshop on science and technology in Nairobi, Kenya, from 17-19 February 1997 to create a subregional technical committee. Contact: Tekeste Ghebray, Executive Secretary of IGAD, P.O. Box 2653, Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti; tel: +253 35-40-50; fax: +253 35-69-94 or Dr. L. Deng, UNSO Bureau for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya; tel: +254 (2) 21-75-97; fax: +254 (2) 21-37-48 / 33- 18-97.
FORUM ON SADC SUBREGIONAL ACTION PROGRAMME: SADC will host a forum in Maru, Lesotho, from 3-5 March 1997, to develop a subregional action programme for Southern Africa. Contact: Mansour N’Diaye, CCD Secretariat, Geneva Executive Center, 11/13 Chemin des Anémones, CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland; tel: +41 (22) 979-9419; fax: +41 (22) 979-9030/31; e-mail: mn’diaye.incd@unep.ch.
THIRD REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CCD IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: Cuba is hosting a regional conference in Havana, Cuba, from 11-12 March 1997, for Latin American and Caribbean countries to prepare for CCD COP-1 and define a regional action programme. Contact: Herminia Serrano Méndez or Maria Nery Urquiza Rodriguez, Centro de Gestión e Inspección Ambiental del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente de Cuba, Calle 20 Esq. 18A Playa, Havana, Cuba; tel: +537 22-75-73/20-70-80; fax: +537 32-18- 71.
WEST ASIAN SUBREGIONAL MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CCD: The League of Arab States’ Arab Center of the Studies of Arid Zones and Drylands (ACSAD) is hosting a subregional meeting in Damascus, Syria, from 9-11 April 1997, to initiate the subregional action programme for West Asian countries. Contact: Gilani Abdelgawad, Director of Soil Division, Doma-Syria, 2440 ACSAD, Damascus, Syria; tel: +249 (11) 47-21-76/47-21-83; fax: +249 (11) 471-1402.
TECHNICAL SUBREGIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CCD IN THE MAGHREB: The Maghreb Arab Union (UMA) will host a subregional conference in Rabat, Morocco, in mid-April 1997, to create a subregional technical unit in support of the CST and CCD in the Maghreb. Contact: Mustapha Tlili, General Secretariat of the Maghreb Arab Union, 27 Rue Okba, Agdal-Rabat, Morocco; tel: +212 (7) 77-26-82; fax: +212 (7) 77-26-93.
ASIAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CCD: China will host a regional ministerial conference in Beijing from 13-15 May 1997, to develop the Regional Action Framework for Asia drawing on national action programmes. Contact: Ms. Longjun Ci, China National Committee for the Implementation of the CCD, 18 Heplingli Dongjie St., Beijing, China, 1000714. For registration and logistical information, contact: Rui Zheng, Director, Division of International Programmes, Ministry of Forestry, China; tel/fax: +86 (10) 642-13184; e- mail: zhengrui@iuol.cn.net.
FORUM ON THE MAGHREB SUBREGIONAL ACTION PROGRAMME: In May 1997 the Maghreb Arab Union will host a forum in Tunis, Tunisia, bringing together government, NGO and IGO representatives to develop a regional action programme for the Maghreb. Contact: Mustapha Tlili, General Secretariat of the Maghreb Arab Union, 27 Rue Okba, Rabat, Morocco; tel: +212 (7) 77-26-82; fax: +212 (7) 77-26-93.
INTER-REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES: The Commonwealth of Independent States will host an inter-regional conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in August 1997, to develop a subregional action programme. Contact: Anatoli Ovchinnikov, Deputy, Hydrometeorology at the Cabinet of Ministers, 72 St., Tashkent, Uzbekistan; tel: +737 (12) 35-69-56; fax: +737 (12) 33-20-25 / 33-20-50.