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PLENARY: |
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| Above photo L-R: Dais during the High-Level
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Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam
Convention (FAO);
Modibo Tiémoko Traoré,
Assistant Director-General, FAO; James Butler,
Deputy Director-General, FAO; PIC COP 4
President Andrea Repetti; Achim
Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP); Donald Cooper,
Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam
Convention (UNEP); and Maria Neira,
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PIC COP 4
President Andrea Repetti |
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| Donald Cooper,
Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention. |
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| James
Butler, FAO Deputy Director-General, noted the
impacts of the food crisis and climate change on the
use of chemicals, and called for greater cooperation
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different ministries. |
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Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director,
underscored the importance of synergies and the
different mechanisms available to further the sound
management of chemicals. |
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Neira, Director, Public Health and Environment,
WHO, stressed the
Convention can only support public health if
chemicals are included in its Annex and that
protecting human health must come before trade.
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MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS:
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| Paolo
Ducci, Directorate General for Economic and Multilateral
Financial Cooperation, Italy. |
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Aram Harutyunyan,
Minister of Nature Protection, Armenia. |
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Maznah Binti Mazlan, Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia. |
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Mohammed Ould Ahmed Salem, Minister Delegate to the
Prime Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development,
Mauritania. |
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Raúl Vidable, Undersecretary for Environmental Control,
Argentina. |
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Tiatia Faumuina Liuga, Minister for Natural Resources and
Environment, Samoa |
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P. Avocksouma Djona Atchenemou, Minister of Public
Health, Chad |
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Laurent
Stefanini, Environment Ambassador to the EU, France |
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MINISTERIAL PANEL DISCUSSIONS: |
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| Above photos:
Panel discussions facilitated by Osmany Pereira,
Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention and Franz Perrez,
Switzerland. |
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| Above photos:
Panel discussions facilitated by Bakary Kante, UNEP. |
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| Above photos:
Panel discussions facilitated by Osvaldo Alvarez,
Chile. |
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CONTACT GROUPS:
Contact groups on compliance, implementation and
budget met throughout the day and into the night. |
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COMPLIANCE: |
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Denis Langlois, Chair of the
contact group on Compliance with Masa Nagai,
Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention. |
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| Delegates
from the EU in consultation during the contact group
session on compliance. |
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BUDGET: |
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Budget contact group Co-Chairs Ositadinma
Anaedu, NIgeria and Paul Garnier,
Switzerland with
Donald Cooper,
Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam
Convention (UNEP). |
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contact group session. |
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IMPLEMENTATION: |
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Compliance
contact group Chair Denis Langlois, Canada in
discussion with implementation contact group
Co-Chairs Kateřina Šebková,
Czech Republic, and Siti Ibrahim, Malaysia.
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| Delegates
from China consulting during the contact group
session on implementation. |
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ENB SNAPSHOTS: |
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MINISTERIAL BRIEFING: |
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