ENB @ CSD-12

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


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30 April & Summary

Highlights from Friday, 30 April

On Friday morning, delegates discussed meeting basic needs in water, sanitation and human settlements, with particular focuses on Sanitation and Human Settlements. In the afternoon, delegates met to hear statements on the status on preparations for the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Mauritius. Chair Brende also introduced his summary of the High Level Segment. John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda, was elected Chair of CSD 13. The CSD adjourned at approximately 6:00 pm. Photo: CSD Chair Borge Brende gavels CSD 12 to a close as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs looks on before opening CSD 13 to elect the Bureau

Meeting basic needs in water, sanitation and human settlements, with a particular focus on Sanitation

Listen to lead off statements from:

Jan Pronk, Chair of WSSCC, former Dutch Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and Minister of Development

Meeting basic needs in water, sanitation and human settlements, with a particular focus on Human Settlements

Listen to statements from:

Hernando de Soto, President, Instituto Libertad y Democracia, Peru

Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT

Olivio Dutra, Minister of State of Cities, Brazil

Delegates from Morocco, the Holy See and Norway

Status on preparations for the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in Mauritius

Jaya Krishna Cuttaree, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Regional Cooperation, Mauritius

Nassir bin Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN

Listen to Statements from:

Marcus Bethel, Minister of Health, Bahamas, speaking on behalf of CARICOM (above left)

Marion Hobbs, Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand

Ireland, on behalf of the European Union

Anwarul Chowdhury, Secretary-General of the Mauritius International Meeting, and Jose Antonio Ocampo, Under Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

The Chair introduces the Summary of the High Level Segment (Summary Part II), closes CSD 12 and opens CSD 13

Listen to the closing statement from Major Groups

John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda, is elected Chair of CSD 13

Learning Center: Use of GEF Processes for Collaboration on Transboundary Waters- by GEF/IW Learn



Martin Bloxham, University of Plymouth, UK

Side Event: A Business Plan for ending World Poverty: Achieving the MDGs by 2015--organized by the Millennium Project

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University, Director of The Millennium Project and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the MDGs

Side Event: ECO-Detectives: Mobilizing Children for Sustainable Development--organized by the Norwegian Forum on Environment and Development

High Level Round Table on "Interlinkages between drought, desertification and water"--organized by the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)