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Intergovernmental
Forum on Chemical Safety VI:
Global Partnership in Chemical Safety
Contributing to the 2020 Goal 15-19
September 2008 | Dakar, Senegal
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Highlights
for Friday, 19 September 2008
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On Friday, the IFCS closing plenary convened and adopted
two resolutions, two recommendations and one
statement. These include a resolution on the future of the IFCS, which invites the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) to integrate the Forum into the ICCM as an advisory body. Delegates also adopted the Dakar Statement on
Manufactured Nanomaterials. They were, however, unable to reach an agreement on international transport of lead and cadmium via trade. In the closing ceremony,
Sidy Gueye, Director of Cabinet, Ministry of the Environment, the Protection of Nature, Retention Basins and Artificial Lakes,
Senegal, thanked everyone for their hard work and expressed hope that the Forum's recommendations would be implemented. He declared the meeting closed at 4:35 pm.
Above photo L-R: Ndiaye Cheikh Sylla
(Senegal), Sidy Gueye, Director of
Cabinet, Ministry of the Environment, the Protection of Nature, Retention Basins and Artificial
Lakes of Senegal and Judy Stober, IFCS
Executive Secretary. |
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CLOSING PLENARY:
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| Chair Michael Wittmann,
Austria, introduced the Draft Dakar Recommendations on Substitution and Alternatives. |
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| Chair Reiner
Arndt, Germany, of the working group on
international transport of lead and cadmium via
trade, said that after extensive discussions and exchanges of information, the group was unable to reach consensus on whether these chemicals posed unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. |
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| Ravi Agarwal, Toxic Link, presented a draft resolution for eliminating lead in paints. |
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| Chair Romy
Quijano, PAN AP, introduced the draft recommendations on ecologically based
integrated pest management and integrated vector
management. |
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| Vice-President Jamidu
Katima introduced the resolution on the future of
the IFCS and the key elements for operation of the Forum, forwarded to plenary by the working group. |
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The Czech Republic, supporting the
text on the future of the IFCS, clarified that the new
advisory body would not in any way diminish the roles and functions of the current Forum.
Karel Bláha, Czech Republic |
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WHO reiterated its support to continue hosting the IFCS secretariat now that delegates had
decided that the Forum will contribute to the overall strategic approach to enhance chemicals management.
Alexander von Hildebrand, WHO |
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Switzerland said her country remains strongly committed to
the IFCS, including financially, in its function of providing a nonbureaucratic, open, flexible and inclusive forum for
discussion.
Bettina Hitzfeld, Switzerland |
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Iran said he hoped the resolution will provide solid ground for
the ICCM to integrate the IFCS, while upholding its status, role and functions.
Gholamhossein
Dehghani, Islamic Republic of Iran, IFCS Vice-President, Asia and the Pacific |
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CIEL was pleased with the fair and balanced resolution, which he said will facilitate the forthcoming decision of the ICCM on the integration of the Forum.
Glen Wiser, Center for International
Environmental Law |
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Georg Karlaganis, Switzerland, presented the final version of
The Dakar Statement on Manufactured Nanomaterials. He
stated that the working group had removed the
bracketed text. |
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Senegal thanked delegates for
his country's nomination as the new IFCS President and expressed commitment towards achieving the 2020
goal in an atmosphere of transparency and openness.
Ndiaye Cheikh Sylla, Senegal |
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Several delegates and IFCS regional Vice-Presidents thanked the host country, the IFCS President Zoltán
Szabó, Hungary, IFCS Executive Secretary Judy Stober and the Secretariat for their constructive cooperation, and wished success for the new IFCS President and Forum Standing Committee members. IFCS President
Zoltán
Szabó thanked everyone for their hard work. He lamented lack of conclusions on lead and cadmium, but expressed hope that a solution could be found at the next meeting, stating he was optimistic about the future of the Forum.
Sidy Gueye,
Director of Cabinet, Ministry of the Environment, the Protection of Nature, Retention Basins and Artificial
Lakes of Senegal, thanked
participants and expressed hope that the Forum’s recommendations would be implemented. He especially thanked the WHO for recalling “the very painful” events in Senegal related to lead poisoning by children and stressed the need for better international cooperation on chemicals management. He declared the meeting closed at 4:35 pm.
Above photos L-R: Judy Stober,
IFCS Executive Secretary; IFCS President Zoltán
Szabó and Sidy Gueye, Director of
Cabinet, Ministry of the Environment, the Protection of Nature, Retention Basins and Artificial
Lakes of Senegal.
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photos: IFCS President Zoltán
Szabó thanking the IFCS Secretariat and
the Government of Senegal. |
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FACES FROM THE IFCS VI:
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writer Kunbao Xia (second from left) with Zang
Wenchao, Liu Guozhi and Guo Xiaofeng, China. |
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Delegates
from Thailand. |
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Participants
from the Latin America and the Caribbean region. |
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Delegates
from Mali and Burkina Faso. |
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| Funsu
Kiluana, Angola |
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Sonja
Haider, Women in Europe for a Common Future |
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Björn
Erikson, International Trade Union Confederation |
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Yolanda
E. Oliveros, Philippines |
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| Jean
Claude Carré, Haiti |
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Bernadette Hakizimana,
Burundi |
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Jerker Forssell,
Sweden |
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Jessica Schifano,
Pablo Perenzin and Pauline Lynch-Keep, IFCS
Secretariat |
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SNAPSHOTS OF ENB READERS:
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| Michael
Wolters |
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Fakaba
Diakite and Oumar Cisse, Mali |
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Fu
Lin Zong, China |
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Clifton
Curtis |
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Hannah
E. Clarendon, Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations |
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Ndizeye
Eliezer, Rwanda |
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ENB IFCS TEAM:
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L-R: Anne
Roemer-Mahler, Kati Kulovesi, Jessica Templeton,
Leila Mead, Franz Dejon, Kunbao Xia, Resson
Kantai |
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Related Links
Intergovernmental
Forum on Chemical Safety website
Official
website of the Government of Senegal for IFCS VI
Forum
VI: Global Partnerships for Chemical Safety
World
Health Organization (WHO)
UNEP
Chemicals
UNEP
- Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
International
Organization for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
International
Programme on Chemical Safety
UNITAR
Chemicals and Waste Management Programme
Stockholm
Convention (POPs)
Rotterdam
Convention (PIC)
Basel
Convention
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RS coverage of the IFCS -
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RS coverage of the IFCS
- II, 10-14 February 1997, Ottawa, Canada
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