Summary
Highlights for Friday, 20 July 2018
L-R: Olav Myklebust, Council President for the 24th Session; Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, ISA Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General; Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General; and Gwénaëlle Le Gurun, ISA Secretariat, at the end of the Council meeting
On Friday, 20 July, the Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) discussed:
The Council adopted a decision on the report of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC) and President Myklebust drew the meeting to a close at 5:50pm.
For extensive details on the day’s negotiations and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin.
IISD Reporting Services, through its ENB+ Meeting Coverage, provided daily digital web coverage and daily reports in English and French from ISA-24. In addition, IISD Reporting Services, will publish a summary and analysis report from ISA-24 on Sunday, 29 July 2018.
Photos by IISD/ENB | Diego Noguera

Olav Myklebust, Council President for the 24th Session, gavels the Council meeting to a close

The Council during Friday’s proceedings

Kathy Ann Brown, Jamaica

Mariusz Orion Jędrysek, Poland

Juan José González Mijares, Mexico

Thembile Joyini, South Africa

Informal consultations on the Council decision on the report of the Legal and Technical Commission

Ibrahim Zanna, Nigeria

Frida Armas-Pfirter, Argentina

Delegates from Singapore in consultations

Rima Browne, Paul Lynch, and Petero Okotai, Cook Islands

Juan José González Mijares and Karla Jones Anaya, Mexico

Kathy Ann Brown and Coy Roache, Jamaica; and Carlos Alberto Michaelsen den Hartog, Brazil

Olav Myklebust, Council President for the 24th Session, Rena Lee and Burhan Gafoor, Singapore

Rose Kautoke and Rennie Vaiomounga, Tonga

David Yardley, Australia, and Kate Neilson, New Zealand

Wendy Bonne, Belgium, and Matthew Gianni, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

Duncan Currie, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition; Greg O’Brien and Jeffrey Reidenauer, US

Megan Jungwiwattanaporn, Pew Charitable Trusts; Maya Breitburg-Smith and Paul de Morgan, RESOLVE

Holly Matley, Australia; and Didier Ortolland, France

Didier Ortolland, France; Christian Reichert, Germany; and Russell Howorth, Fiji

Mehdi Remaoun, Algeria; and Pat Piotr Czepulonis, Poland

Peter Jantzen, Blue Minerals Ltd; and Anne Sophie Vinther Hansen, Maersk Supply Service

Jean-Christophe Vandevelde, ENB; and Alexey Orel, Russian Federation

The delegation from Chile

The delegation from Nigeria

Rogério Gonçalves and Carlos Alberto Michaelsen den Hartog, Brazil

The German delegation

Tini Duburiya and Graham Leung, Nauru

Kirsty McQuaid, Plymouth University, and Annekah Mason, ISA Secretariat

Marzia Rovere and Arianna Cofini, Italy

The African Group at the end of the meeting
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