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PAPUA NEW GUINEA:
Renagi R. Lohia spoke exclusively on the
Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island
Developing States and Conference on Straddling and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks. He called the Barbados Conference the first test for
the international community in implementing the Rio agreements and
appealed for a resumed PrepCom. He commended the efforts of UN
agencies for the Conference. Papua New Guinea is tightly monitoring
fishing licenses within its EEZ and is committed to achieving the
objective of adopting conservation and management measures to
protect living marine resources in the high seas. There is need for
fisheries reform and ecologically sound conservation within EEZs
and on the high seas. Options for a legally and politically binding
outcome of the fisheries Conference include a global treaty, a
protocol to UNCLOS, and/or regulations or norms of conduct
implementing UNCLOS once it enters into force. What is needed is
political will to accept, implement and be bound by agreements in
the high seas regime.