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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 Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Delegates to the first meeting of the Friends of the Co-Chairs on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety met throughout the day and in the evening to continue deliberations on proposed operational texts on liability and redress. Delegates considered the primary compensation scheme, including response measures, obligations of the operator, the competent authority, definitions of “operator” and “damage,” and exemptions and mitigation.

"Pueblos de Maiz" photograph presented at an exhibition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Pedro Cabral de Andrade, Brazil

Reynaldo Ariel Alvarez Morales, Executive Secretary, CIBIOGEM

Hugo Schally, European Community

Worku Damena Yifru, CBD Secretariat, Co-Chair René Lefeber (the Netherlands), Co-Chair Jimena Nieto (Colombia) and Manoela de Miranda, CBD Secretariat

Arlene Villalaz Caneira, Panama

Co-Chair René Lefeber (the Netherlands), Fernando Coimbra, Brazil and Co-Chair Jimena Nieto (Colombia)

Giannina Santiago Cabarcas, Colombia and Maria de Lourdes Torres, Ecuador

Gerard van Bohemen, New Zealand,Birthe Ivars, Norway and Jürg Bally, Switzerland

Sonia Tomassone, Paraguay

Working draft

Deliberations around the centre table.

Chinese Delegates


	Discussions continued during the break in the prolonged afternoon session.

Eréndira García, ENB writer, Mexico and Stefan Juncurt, ENB writer, Germany

Angeles Estrada, ENB Digital Editor, Argentina, and Nicole Schabus, ENB Writer, Austria


	Around the conference

Military ceremony for the Mexican "Día de la Bandera".

Police officers inspecting the Alameda Park.


	"Pueblo de Maíz" Exhibition


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