Highlights from the closing day of the Convention on Migratory Species

Tuesday, 16 November (Click on the "Day's coverage" section for further coverage)

The COW convened to consider draft resolutions on, inter alia: budgetary matters, juridical personality, privileges and immunities of the Convention Secretariat and Marine Turtles of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. In the afternoon, delegated met in a closing Plenary session to finalize the work of COP-6.

	On Tuesday, 16 November, the COW amended and adopted the resolution on financial and administrative matters (UNEP/CMS/Res 6.7 (Rev. 1)
	Arnulf Müller-Helmbrecht, Executive Secretary for CMS, speaks on the the reasons for the CMS's success.
	Douglas Hykle, CMS Secretariat, with Geoffrey Cowan, Assistant Director Nature Conservation, South Africa, at the conclusion of the Plenary.

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