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IFF-3 |
THIRD
SESSION OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL
FORUM ON FORESTS
Geneva, 3-14 May 1999
Briefing for Wednesday, 12 May |
On the eighth day of IFF-3, delegates met in a morning Plenary session to further deliberate international mechanisms and arrangements. Following the Plenary, Working Group 1 convened to finalize Co-Chairs' Reports on forest conservation and protected areas, forest research, monitoring progress in implementation. Contact groups on trade and environment, transfer of ESTs, negotiation of Working Group 2 programme elements, including valuation and economic instruments, and international mechanisms and arrangements meet intermittently throughout the day. Deliberations continued late into the evening as delegates hurried to complete their work. |
Photos and RealAudio from Wednesday, 12 May |
Co-Chair
llkka Ristimäki chats to Barbara Ruis, consultant to the IFF, before the
Plenary.
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Delegates confer prior to the opening of the Plenary. |
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Bill Mankin, Global Forest Policy Project, studies the ENB daily summary with fellow NGO participants. |
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Annie Wong, ENB, chats with the US delegate, Jan McAlpine. | |
Rod
Holesgrove the Australian delegate makes an intervention on paragraph
5.
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Delegates Jan McAlpine, USA and Tsuguo Ban, Japan. | |
Delegates from Australia and Canada discuss paragraph 5, Agenda Item 4. | |
Canada intervenes on Agenda Item 4. | |
A
painting exhibited by the renowned Chinese artist Yusheng Zhao. The Exhibition
was opened today at the UN by the Ambassador for China, Zong Huai Qiao.
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