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United
Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to
the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, 4th part |
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January 2006 | Geneva, Switzerland
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Highlights from
Tuesday, 17 January 2006
On the second day of the UN Conference for the Negotiation
of the Successor Agreement to the International Tropical
Timber Agreement, 1994, Fourth Part, delegates made mixed
progress on the working paper. Working Group I continued to address outstanding
issues regarding Objectives and Definitions, and tackled the contentious
issue of Council session frequency and funding. Working Group II continued
discussing Financial Accounts, Administrative Accounts, and the Special
Account. Delegates had a chance to socialize at an evening reception and
discuss the merits of a Producer Group proposal that was circulated. |
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Working
Group I
WGI Chair Alhassan Attah (Ghana) continued to guide delegates
through the working paper, revisiting unresolved issues such
as the inclusion of "environmental services" within the Preamble
and Objectives, and the criteria used for the delineation
of Producer and Consumer members. |
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Left
to right: Alexei Mojarov, UNCTAD, Lakshmi Puri,
UNCTAD, Hannah Davies, UNCTAD, and Steve
Johnson, ITTO Secretariat |
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Steve
Johnson, ITTO Secretariat |
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Carlos Moreno Mericaechevarria,
Advisor, Legal Services |
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Koulangna
Koutou, Cameroon |
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Hoda
S. Rashed, Egypt, said it was important to
include plantations under the definition of "tropical
forest resources" |
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Stephanie
Caswell, US, asks for information
on the utility of the two tier voting system |
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Japan
and Switzerland favoured one annual Council session,
while Brazil maintained that two would be better. Left
to right: Luiz
Cesar Gasser, Brazil, Miyano Michiko,
Japan, Franz Xaver Perrez, Switzerland |
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J.
C. Kala, India said that
since this is a commodity agreement,
it should focus on forest products, and
not the type of forest the products originate
from
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Sheam
Satkuru-Granzella, Malaysia,
cautioned against vastly
expanding the Organization’s
scope and agenda
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Koulangna
Koutou, Cameroon, noted the importance
of convening Council sessions on a binannual
basis |
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The Mexican delegation consults informally with
Andres Tobias y Rubio, European
Commission |
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Aulikki
Kauppila, Finland and Luiz Cesar Gasser, Brazil
consulted on definitions negotiated during ITTA-3 |
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Working
Group II
In
the morning, WGII deliberated on the name of the Organization's
assessed and voluntary accounts. In the absence of consensus,
Producer and
Consumer members worked from a Chair's compromise text
on the
Organization's financial accounts during an afternoon Working
Group
session. Delegates also discussed policy work of the Organization. |
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WG II Chair Blaser opened
the session by proposing to open the floor to comments
on the Producer members’ proposal on financial arrangements |
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WGII Chair Jürgen Blaser, Switzerland, and
Lisanne Losier, UNCTAD |
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WGII
Chair Jürgen Blaser, Switzerland, introduces his compromise
text on finance |
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Aulikki Kauppila, Finland, speaking for the Consumer
Group, thanked the Producer members for their proposal
but noted that members may need to consult with capitals
before responding to Producers' proposal |
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Fredua
Agyeman, Ministry of Lands and Forestry,
Ghana, cautioned against too limited a defintion
of administrative costs |
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Sandra Ribey, Canada, suggested listing only (a) an
Administrative Account, (b) a Voluntary Contributions
Account, and (c) other accounts as Council shall
deem necessary, in the chapeau to the financial articles |
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Daniel Birchmeier, Switzerland agreed with Canada on
its listing of accounts, and suggested putting the Bali
Partnership Fund details in the article on Voluntary
Contributions Account |
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Hideo
Fukushima, Japan agreed with the US on
simplifying the language of the financial articles
to make a logical structure with a general framework
under which details can be specified |
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Marcel Vernooij, the Netherlands, suggested that policy
work of the organization be decided by all ITTO member
states |
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Ramón Carrillo Arrellane, Mexico, and Rubén
Dario Guerrero Useda, Colombia. Mexico suggested that Consumers
take more time to consider the Producers' proposal |
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Enzo Barattini, Directorate-General for Development,
European Commission, has a problem with
the definition of a single administrative account
to fund strategic activities and preferred
two sub-accounts funded through asessed
contributions |
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ITTA-4 Reception
hosted by UN Conference President Ambassador Carlos Antonio da Rocha
Paranhos |
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Links
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UNCTAD’s website for the ITTA, 1994 renegotiation, 4th part. Includes the provisional agenda and supporting documents
ITTO Secretariat
UNFF Website
FAO
UNFF Secretariat
UNFCCC Secretariat
CBD Secretariat
ENB coverage of ITTC-39
ENB coverage of the UN Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to the ITTA, 1994 -
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Part 2 |
Part 3
YMB summary of the Country-Led Initiative “Scoping for a Future Agreement on Forests”, 16-18 November 2005, Berlin, Germany (HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
ENB summary from UNFF-5: (English:
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PDF,
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(Spanish:
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(French:
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YMB summary from the Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Conference, 6-8 June, 2005 Moscow, Russia: (HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
YMB coverage the Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Conference, 22-25 November 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia
ENB archives of forestry meetings
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