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Delegate
from Cuba presented the declaration on Arts and Culture during
the afternoon COP Plenary
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CCD
COP-6 HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2003
Delegates
convened in bilateral and informal consultations on the programme
and budget throughout the day and late into the night. The
COP convened in afternoon and evening sessions, eventually
concluding its work at 1:43 am on Saturday, 6 September.
 Listen to the
closing comments of:
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Click
here for the Earth Negotiatins Bulletin (ENB) full text
summary of COP-6
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COP-6 President Simeón
Negrín
UNCCD COP-6 plenary was finally gavelled to a close at 1:43
am, September 6th.
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Otto
Gustafik of the Secretariat |
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COP-6
President Simeón
Negrín
with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada (President of the National Assembly
of Cuba) |
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COW
Chair Ositadinma
Anaedu
(Nigeria) |
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Grégoire
de Kalbermatten, Deputy Executive Secretary |
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Hama
Arba Diallo, CCD Executive Secretary
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Massimo
Candelori of the Secretariat
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Annemarie Watt (Australia) was elected Vice-chair of the
CRIC |
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Delegate
from Italy speaking on behalf of the EU
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John
Ashe, Chair of the informal consultations on the programme and
budget, reports on the group's work
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Delegate from Belarus giving a closing statement on behalf
of Central and Eastern Europe |
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Delegate
from Jamaica waiting to express his final points
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John
Matuszak of the (US) also made closing comments
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Mohammed
Arrouchi and Askarn
Omar from Morocco.
Omar (on right) presented a draft decision (on behalf of the
G-77/China) thanking Cuba's government and people for hosting
COP-6 |
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(Left to rIght:) Lefu Manyokole, Tebello Metsing, Jane Malephane,
Nkareng 'Mota (Lesotho) |
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Ana
Maria Hernandez from Colombia
(left) and Delegate from Chile (right)
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Delegates
of the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean |
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Javad Amin-Mansur (Iran) presented the decisions of the
Ad hoc Group of Experts
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Naser
Moghaddasi and Hosein Maleki (Iran)
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Delegate
from Barbados
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(Left
to right:) Gitte Motzfeldt, Solveig Raaheim Grønsdal
and Anne Marie Skjold (Norway)
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Innocent Bizimana and Cyprien Bishangara (Rwanda) |
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Per
Rydén, Managing Director of the Global Mechanism
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COP-6
President Simeón Negrín in the foyer with colleagues,
waiting for today's COP plenary to begin |
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Bart Snels (Global Mechanism) |
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Delegates
considering documents
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Dannell
Price, UN Headquarters, New York
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Hama
Arba Diallo (CCD Executive Secretary), COP-6 President Simeón
Negrín and
Oscar Oramas from UNCCD-Secretariat |
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Delegates
from Mexico |
Members
of the Secretariat at the closing of the COP-6 |
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Diallo and Negrín congratulate each other on the
closing of the COP
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"Muchacha" by Jesus
Díaz Morán |
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"La Boga y el Tabaquero" by Inti Abascal
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"Juliana"
by Adrian Infante |
Examples
of artwork by Cuban artists displayed throughout the conference
center |
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to further information:
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