Summary
On Tuesday, 4 April, delegates to the third session of the Preparatory Committee on the elements of a draft text of an international legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (PrepCom 3) convened in plenary in the morning and in the afternoon, with the informal working group on cross-cutting issues completing its work in the morning.
In the morning, Amb. Peter Thomson (Fiji), UN General Assembly President, encouraged delegates to bring cooperation, flexibility and determination to the BBNJ process and to participate in the upcoming Oceans Conference, stressing the importance of the BBNJ process in oceans stewardship. In the afternoon, plenary further discussed the scope of benefit-sharing from marine genetic resources, as well as access and benefit-sharing modalities.
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President of the UN General Assembly, Amb. Peter Thomson, Fiji
President of the UN General Assembly, Amb. Peter Thomson, Fiji
Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UNDOALOS); President of the UN General
Assembly, Amb. Peter Thomson, Fiji; Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil; Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS; and Charlotte Salpin, UNDOALOS
Margo Deiye, Nauru, on behalf of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS)
Daniela Diz, WWF
Peni Suveinakama, Fiji
Susan Whelan, Holy See
Alain Tellier, Canada
Kjell Kristian Egge, Norway
Driss Meski, Executive Secretary, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Veronika Frank, Greenpeace International on behalf of the High Seas Alliance
Evan Bloom, US
Rolando Castro, Costa Rica
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
José Luis Fernández Valoni, Argentina
Janine Coye-Felson, Belize, Facilitator of the informal working group on
marine genetic resources
Riena Dwi Astuty, Indonesia
María Claudia Vélez Crismatt, Colombia
Ma Xinmin, China
Alice Revell, New Zealand
Maruthadu Sudhakar, India
Metod Špaček, EU
Essam Yassin Mohammed, Eritrea
Rishy Bukoree, Mauritius
Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, IUCN
Maria Rowena Romana-Eguia, the Philippines
L-R: President of the UN General Assembly, Amb. Peter Thomson, Fiji, in conversation with
Chair Carlos Sobral Duarte, Brazil
L-R: Sergey Leonidchenko, Russian Federation, in consultation with
Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga, Mexico
Delegates from Latin America consulting
Amb. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of Kenya to the UN and Special Envoy on Climate Change
and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in conversation with delegates from Kenya