Summary
On Friday, delegates to the seventeenth meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-17) completed their work.
In the morning, delegations were given an opportunity to review the Co-Chairs’ draft summary of the week’s discussions. Plenary then reconvened at 12:00pm to undertake a page-by-page review of the summary. Delegates discussed the draft and suggested corrections and clarifications to best capture discussions. In their closing statements, many delegations commended ICP-17 and thanked the Co-Chairs for their work.
The Co-Chairs thanked delegates for their participation in the fruitful discussions over the course of the week, and declared the meeting closed at 12:44pm.
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Plenary
L-R: Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
(UNDOALOS); Co-Chair Nicholas Emiliou, Cyprus; and Co-Chair Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Peru, consulting
with Alice Hicuburundi, Secretary, ICP-17;
and Charlotte Salpin,
Deputy Secretary, ICP-17
Co-Chair Nicholas Emiliou, Cyprus
Co-Chair Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Peru
Delegates from Slovakia and Singapore reviewing the draft Co-Chairs' Summary
Judith Neumann, Germany
Sae Horikawa, Japan
Britta Denise Hardesty,
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research
Organization, Australia
(CSIRO)
Peter Van den Dries, Belgium
Semisi Seruitanoa, Fiji
Fredrik Haag, International Maritime Organization (IMO)
Rana Burley, Canada
Hideshige Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Delegates from Pacific Island States
L-R: Charlotte Salpin, Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Dmitry Gonchar, and Alice Hicuburundi, UNDOALOS