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First Meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety

23-27 February 2009 | Mexico City, Mexico

Highlights for Monday, 23 February 2009
The First Meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety opened Monday 23 February, 2009 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico. The meeting will continue to further negotiate international rules and procedures on liability and redress for damage resulting from transboundary movements of living modified organisms (LMOs) in the context of the Protocol, based on the proposed operational texts on liability and redress, annexed to decision BS-IV/12 (Liability and Redress) adopted at the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP/MOP4).

Delegates addressed organizational matters, discussed the nature of the international regime on liability and redress, and considered operational text for a legally binding administrative approach, including scope, limitations and the definition of damage.

Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mexico, and Sandra Denisse Herrera Flores, Undersecretary of Environmental Legislation, Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources

Reynaldo Ariel Alvarez Morales, Executive Secretary, Inter-Secretarial Commission on Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM), and Co-Chair Jimena Nieto (Colombia)

Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mexico

Reynaldo Ariel Alvarez Morales,Executive Secretary, CIBIOGEM

Charles Gbedemah, CDB Secretariat

Fernando Coimbra, Brazil

Arlene Villalaz Caneira, Panama

Jürg Bally, Switzerland

Gurdial Singh Nijar, Malaysia

Tewolde Egziabher, Ethiopia

Giannina Santiago Cabarcas, Colombia

Birthe Ivars, Norway

Luther Rangreji, India

Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand

Delegates from Paraguay confer.

Lenia Arce Hernández, Cuba

Hugo Schally, European Community


	Around the conference

Charles Gbedemah, CBD Secretariat, and Co-Chair René Lefeber (the Netherlands)

Co-Chair Jimena Nieto (Colombia) is interviewed.


	Greenpeace expressed its concerns paraphrasing Benito Juarez: Is original words "The respect for the others' rights is peace" into " The respect to Mexican maize is peace".


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