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BENIN:

The representative from Benin noted that his country has acceded to the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol (ozone) and will ratify the Basel Convention, the Bamako Convention, the Climate Change Convention and the Biodiversity Convention in early 1994. The Plan of Action to Combat Desertification has fallen short of all hopes in the Sudano-Sahelian region and there is a need for more funds so that the UN Sudano-Sahelian Office can carry out its UNCED expanded mandate. He is concerned with trends in the GEF as the restructured GEF must finance projects to combat desertification and drought. Benin supports the draft resolution submitted by the INCD requesting an additional session to be held after adoption of the Convention and prior to its entry into force.