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ARTICLE 12 -- SUB-REGIONAL ACTION PROGRAMMES:
During the
first reading, many delegations, including Brazil, Australia,
Greece (on behalf of the EU), the US, Chile, Mexico and Japan,
supported merging this article with Article 13, "Regional action
programmes." China, Japan, and the US supported moving the
suggested measures for sub-regional action plans to a technical or
regional annex. Some Africans did not support the merge as they
felt that both regional and sub-regional action programmes are
useful. In the subsequent draft, A/CONF.241/WG.I/CRP.3, the
Secretariat merged these two articles, but the Africans insisted on
keeping these concepts separate and the two articles were restored.
The same definitional problems in Article 9 arose in this
discussion. Other problems that emerged included: the use of the
terms "shared resources" or "transboundary resources" and
"affected" or "degraded" ecosystems. Sub-paragraph (d), which
mentions alternative sources of energy, remains bracketed, as
requested by Saudi Arabia. The US bracketed (f), which refers to
the harmonization of trade practices.