Conference President Jan
Pronk, FAO Director General Jacques Diouf and UNEP Executive Director Klaus Töpfer take
their seats on the dias |
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UNEP Executive Director Klaus Töpfer addresses
the Diplomatic Conference |
Jacques Diouf,
Director-General of FAO |
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Signing for Jan
Pronk, a Dutch representative signs the Final Act |
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Wang Zhijia of China signs the Final Act |
John Fraser, Canadian
Ambassador for the Environment |
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US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Environment and Development Rafe Pomerance addressing the Conference |
Richard Campbell, ENB
writer and coffee addict |
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Plenary Hall |
Antonio H. Cerilles,
Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines |
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Paul Whylie, Pesticides Control
Authority, Jamaica |
Vinod Vaish, Ministry of
Environment and Forests, India |
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Swiss Secretary of State Dr. Philippe
Roch, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape |
Signing for Jan
Pronk, a Dutch representative signs the Convention |
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Ambassador Hanibal Jagvaral of Mongolia
signs the Convention |
Jim Willis, UNEP Chemicals |
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Ritt Bjerregaard of the European
Commisssion |
Ambassador Malloum Bintou
of Chad signs the Convention |
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Brazilian Ambassador to the Netherlands
Vera Pedrosa Martins de Almeida |
President Jan Pronk,
Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment |
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The Signing Ceremony |
Delegates wait for the
signing ceremony to begin |
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Argentine Ambassador Alberto L. Daverede |
Senegalese Ministre de
l'Environnement et de la Protection de la Nature Souty Toure |
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