ENB @ WSSD African Regional Preparatory Meeting, 15-18 October 2001, Nairobi, Kenya

The World Summit on Sustainable Development
African Preparatory Meeting
15 - 18 October 2001 Nairobi, Kenya

Web Archive:

| Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 |

Update for Tuesday, 16 October 2001

PLENARY:

On the second day of WSSD Africa delegates met briefly in Plenary to hear a progress report from the Chair of the Drafting Committee. Chair Osita Anaedu (left) reported on the Committee's Monday evening session. The Committee produced a draft Ministerial Statement which was made available in the afternoon. Anaedu expressed gratitude for helpful inputs to the drafting process, including the Assessment report, the draft Ministerial Statement, the report of the Cairo roundtable of eminent persons, and the ideas from stakeholders such as NGOs and industry.

ENB
Final Summary

HTML

PDF*

ASCII

* To view PDF files, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader:

To listen to Real Audio files, you will need the free Real Audio player.


	Chair Chiyenge (right) stressed that the Drafting Committee should also consider the observations made in Plenary during discussions of the Assessment report on Monday, 15 October. She re-opened the discussions of the assessment report, but there were no comments from delegates, thus Plenary adjourned at 10:45 am, giving way to the continuation of work by the Drafting Committee.

	AFRICAN MINISTERIAL STATEMENT: DRAFTING COMMITTEE

	The Drafting Committee convened for most of the day and into the evening in an effort to prepare a complete draft Ministerial Statement before the arrival of Ministers on Wednesday, 17 October. Right photo:


	Above photo: Delegates from the drafting committee decided to split into two groups to work on the African Ministerial Statement.
	The drafters wanted a text shorter than originally presented to delegates on Monday morning, and drew heavily from the Millennium Declaration, the New African Initiative, the Cairo Eminent Persons meeting, the outcomes of the SADC Southern Cone consultation in Mauritius and other regional preparatory events. There discussions highlighted a number of key aspects such as the constraints felt by Africa through the pressures of world politics, including globalization, the need to emphasize the qualitative aspects of economic growth and development to improve living standards. The eradication of poverty emerged as a main priority. The drafting continued late into the night and had not been concluded by the time we stopped coverage of the meeting at 11:00 pm. Left photo: A view of the delegates revising the Ministerial Statement.

	SIDE EVENT: PHOTOS FROM THE AFRICAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (AMCEN)



	Above photos (clockwise): Klaus Töpfer, UNEP Executive Director addressing the participants of AMCEN, The AMCEN dias during the morning plenary, Participants of the AMCEN event.

	Background on the meeting: African Regional Preparatory Process Africa Regional Round Table UNECE Region's website for the WSSD Introduction to Johannesburg Summit 2002 Linkage's Portal to the Johannesburg Summit 2002 ENB's coverage of the First Preparatory Session of the World Summit on Sustainable Development ENB's coverage of the UNECE Regional Ministerial Meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
© 2001, IISD. All rights reserved.