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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.