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Web Coverage/ Summary
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) is producing daily web coverage and will produce a summary report from this meeting on 3 November 2012. |
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Sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention)
28-30 November 2012 | Rome, Italy
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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Highlights for Thursday, 29 November 2012
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On Thursday, MOP6 participants continued progress on their very full agenda, tackling: support to implementation through capacity building and assistance on the ground; transboundary groundwater; assessment of the status of transboundary waters; joint monitoring and assessment of transboundary waters, including data management and information exchange; water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins; National Policy Dialogues under the European Union Water Initiative; cooperation with the Protocol on Water and Health; and cooperation with other multilateral environmental agreements and international partners.
The meeting decided to create a unique mechanism aimed to support implementation and compliance and adopted model provisions on transboundary groundwaters.
In the afternoon, the signing ceremony of the new bilateral Treaty on Cooperation on the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Dniester River Basin took place, with Gheorghe Salaru, Minister of Environment, Republic of Moldova, and Eduard Stavytskyi, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ukraine.
Two side events were held during the lunch break, entitled: “The EU Water Initiative National Policy Dialogue: identifying good practices and lessons learned, shaping ideas for the future,” and “How the UN system supports transboundary water cooperation.” |
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From L-R: Marco Keiner, Director, Environment Division, UNECE; Attila Tanzi, University of Bologna, Italy and Chair of the Convention's Legal Board; Sibylle Vermont, Chair of MOP6, Switzerland; Francesca Bernardini, UNECE Secretariat; Iulia Trombitcaia, UNECE Secretariat; Nataliya Nikiforova, UNECE Secretariat
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From L-R: Riccardo Migliori, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Andrey Vasilyev, Deputy Executive Secretary, UNECE; Eduard Stavytskyi, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ukraine; Gheorghe Salaru, Minister of Environment, Republic of Moldova; Sibylle Vermont, Chair of MOP6, Switzerland
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