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STATUS OF THE CONVENTION:
One issue that was raised during
INCD-6 was the status of the Convention. Since the EU and other developed countries
were stressing that the role of the Secretariat should be restricted to a facilitative one,
the G-77 and China were concerned that the OECD countries were trying to
downgrade the Convention to a lower status than the Framework Convention on
Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Developing countries
feared that conditionalities were being stressed beyond the spirit and provisions of the
Convention and its regional annexes and, therefore, stressed that the Interim Secretariat
should play an activist role in ensuring the status of the Convention. Developed
countries responded that the CCD has the same status as other environmental
conventions and one delegate expressed the view that, in fact, the CCD was superior
to the others because of its bottom-up approach.