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Third Part of the United Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994
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27 June – 1 July 2005 | Geneva, Switzerland | |||||
Joint Working Group - Working Group II | ||
Panel from the Joint Working Group. From left to right: Catherine Sibut-Pinote, UNCTAD, WGI Chair, Alhassan Attah, Ghana, and WGII Chair Jürgen Blaser, Switzerland
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WGI Chair Alhassan Attah, Ghana, asked delegates to focus on the voting process | WGII Chair Jürgen Blaser, Switzerland, asked delegates to clean articles for the Drafting Group | Luis J. Macchiavello, Ambassador of Peru, feigned a heart attack over language in the working document | |||||
Koichi Ito, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, noted the privileges and immunities which it has provided to the Organization since the establishment of ITTO headquarters in Yokohama | Luiz Cesar Gasser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, highlighted the importance of a mid-term evaluation focused on the new Agreement's implementation to see what works, what doesn’t, and why | David Brooks, US, said it prefers a simplified two tier voting system | |||||
Enzo Barattini, European Commission, discusseed formulation of the article on Policy Work of the Organization | Daniel Birchmeier, Switzerland | John Bazill, European Commission, called for establishing criteria for “defining thematic programmes” in a paragraph listing criteria for projects and pre-projects | |||||
Carlos Moreno Mericaechevarria, UNCTAD legal advisor, said that the phrase: “within the limits of national legislation” is consistent with other commodity agreements and aims to safeguard states’ rights | Cecep Herawan, Permanent mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations and other International Organizations | B. Che Yeom Freezailah, Malaysian Timber Certification Council, noted that the Executive Director is given responsibility to assist in formulating proposals within an article on the Special Account | |||||
Alain Ngoya-Kessy, Congo, cautioned against compromising the neutrality of the Executive Director
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Charlotte Cudby, New Zealand, said there is redundancy in the Article on Review
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Merethe Luís, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
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Korean Republic delegation during a conversation with WGII Chair Jürgen Blaser
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EU representatives having a quick coordination session
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Working Group I | ||
Panel from the Working Group I. From left to right: WGI Vice-Chair Jan McAlpine, US, WGI Chair Alhassan Attah, Ghana, and Catherine Sibut-Pinote, UNCTAD
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WGI Chair Alhassan Attah, Ghana, proposed, and delegates agreed, to use freely “convertible” instead of “useable” currencies | WG I Vice-Chair Jan McAlpine, US | Bipin Behari, India, on the definition of "producer member," favored maintaining languague from ITTA, 1994 | |||||
Franz Xaver Perrez, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, asked the Secretariat to distribute a technical paper that discusses the implications of choosing each of the terms for defining “producer member” | Victoria L. Barnes, Philippines, said that “Definitions” should not change status of members, and suggested keeping “producer member” as stated in ITTA, 1994 | Iwan Krolis, Suriname, questioned if coniferous species are included under closed broadleaved forests | |||||
Regarding “net” exporter of tropical timber, Luis Eveline (left), Honduras, José Rolando Zanotti (center), Guatemala, and Arturo Cobian López, Mexico, suggested delete the term “net” | |||||
Rubén Darío Guerrero Useda (left), Colombia and Huot Bunnary (right), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia, discussed the definitions of consumer members | On vote distribution calculation, Don Wijewardana, New Zealand, expressed reservation on basing the definition of “tropical forest resources” on productive and non-productive forests | |||||
Alejandro Romero Hernández, Mexico | Dike Kari, Papua New Guinea, agreed with the EC definition of "tropical forest resources" | Highlighting that consumer members form a small and warm group, Stephanie Caswell, US, said that the only downside of producers becoming consumers would be the obligation of increased contributions to the Administrative Account | |||||
Regarding exporter of tropical timber in “volume” or “value”, Renzo Silva, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Venezuela, favored “volume” | Sarah Mohan, ICTSD | ||||
Participants at the Working Group I
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Stephanie Caswell, US and Franz Xaver Perrez, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape
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Bipin Behari, Ministry of Enviornment and Forests of India and Inga Magistad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
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Karen Alvarenga de Oliveira (Brazil) and Twig Johnson (United States of America), ENB writers
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