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NGOs exit the Plenary Hall in a silent protest as Nigeria gives an address calling for majority voting in COP disputes and claiming its ratification represented support for "survival of life in all its ramifications."
Naizgy Gebremedhin, Executive Director of the Eritrean Agency for the Environment, speaks with a delegate from Guinea after giving one of the day's most poetic address. Gebremedhin called for "lighting sacred fires" of outrage at extinctions and the loss of biodiversity, of the reverence for living things, to make the Biodiversity Convention a true instrument of peace.
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Dr. Calestous Juma, Executive Secretary of the CBD Secretariat.
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Veit Koester of Denmark, Chair of the Commitee of the Whole at COP-1