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	Twelfth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-12) United Nations Headquarters, New York \| 19-30 April 2004


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Highlights from Wednesday, 21 April

In the morning, delegates in Conference Room 1 continued discussion on the overall review on the implementation of Agenda 21, Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21, and JPOI. Delegates in Conference Room 2 discussed water, focusing on financing, and empowering stakeholders. In the afternoon, delegates in Conference Room 1 heard status reports on inter-agency coordination, partnerships, national reporting and indicators. Delegates in Conference Room 2 discussed sanitation, focusing on the status of implementation, and strategies for improving access to basic sanitation. Photo: Students visit the UN for a special event on Water, Education and Youth

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Statements: Overall Review

CSD Vice-Chair Bolus Paul Zom Lolo (Nigeria)

Kenya's intervention

Kazakhstan's intervention

Delegates from Canada (left) and Brazil (right)

Delegates from New Zealand and Nauru

South Africa's intervention (right)

Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto, Executive Secretary, Basel Convention

International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies

Malaysia's intervention

The European Community's intervention

Thailand's intervention

Status report on request for information from CSD-11 on reports on inter-agency coordination, partnerships, national reporting and indicators

JoAnne DiSano, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, introduced the relevant documents and highlighted, inter alia, the establishment of UNWATER and UNENERGY, and its interactive partnerships database.

Belgium's intervention

Costa Rica's intervention

Iran's intervention, on behalf of the G-77/China (photo above)

Listen to the response of JoAnne DiSano, Division of Sustainable Development

Nigeria's intervention

The US intervention

UNEP's intervention

Trade Unions' intervention

Women's intervention

Cuba's intervention

Slovenia's intervention

JoAnne DiSano and Anne Kerr, Secretariat, respond to concerns raised by delegates

Thematic discussion on Sanitation

--Status of implementation of MDG/JPOI goals related to sanitation, from global to local levels

--Strategies for improving access to basic sanitation

Patrick Kahangire, Department of Water, Uganda, Bernando Monge, Dirección Protección Ambiente Humano, Costa Rica, and Gourisankar Ghosh, Water and Sanitation Supply Collaborative Council

Jamie Bartram, WHO

Interactive discussion on Water:

--Meeting the financing challenge for water--incentives to promote reforms and leverage resources

--Empowering stakeholders to ensure participation, in particular, women as agents of change

John Wasielewski, USAID, Thierry Chambolle, International Chamber of Commerce, Manuel Dengo, DESA, and CSD-12 Vice-Chair Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Costa Rica

Related Activities: Water, Education and Youth--organized by UNICEF, UNDESA, DPI, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NY-DEP), the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and Earth Child Institute

Commissioner Christopher Ward, New York, Department of Environmental Protection addresses students (left) and CSD-12 Vice-Chair Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Costa Rica, receives a book highlighting students concerns and perspectives on water and sanitation

William Yotive, Project Manager, Global Teaching and Learning Project, News and Media Division, UN Department of Public Information (left)

Vanessa Tobin, UNICEF, with students

William Yotive, UN Department of Public Information, CSD-12 Vice-Chair Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Costa Rica, Commissioner Christopher Ward, New York, Department of Environmental Protection, Gourisankar Ghosh, WSSCC, Vanessa Tobin, UNICEF, and student representatives