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IV. Global Commitments:
Many delegates addressed the issue
of global commitments. Algeria said there should be both global
and country-specific commitments, as well as increased
multilateral cooperation through the UN or the informal community
of NGOs. While Sweden said that global commitments should be the
same for all participants, the UK wanted a distinction made
between the commitments of affected and unaffected countries.
Portugal said that global commitments must be carefully defined
and Denmark, on behalf of the EC, said that parties should only
make commitments that can be effectively implemented and easily
monitored. Gambia said that the commitments in the Convention
should be in the form of information, financial and human
resource exchanges between countries. Mali listed four kinds of
global commitments that should be contained in the Convention:
scientific, including strengthening national capacities and
creating international centres; technical; economic, including
reducing the debt burden and trade imbalances; and financial,
including improving existing mechanisms.