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Fourth meeting of the Conference of
the Parties to the Stockholm Convention
on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs COP4)
4-8 May 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland
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Stockholm
COP4 convenes for its final day
The fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP4) to the Stockholm
Convention convened for its final day in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday,
8 May 2009.
During the morning plenary session, delegates heard statements by ministers and heads of delegation, as well as an address by UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
Contact groups on financial resources and technical assistance, budget, and non-compliance convened throughout the day.
The afternoon plenary reconvened at 4.30pm for discussion and adoption of decisions.
After adopting the report of the
meeting (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/L.1), plenary
was suspended until 6:30pm.
The afternoon plenary reconvened at 4:30pm for discussion and adoption of decisions. After adopting the report of the meeting (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/L.1), plenary was suspended until 6:30pm, after which it reconvened to adopt the remainder of the report (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/L.1). The meeting was then suspended to all time for the technical assistance and financial resources contact groups to complete their work. At 12:30am plenary reconvened and a political compromise was announced relating to the listing of new chemicals and a decision on financial resources. Plenary was suspended again for information consultations and to allow time for the preparation of a decision document. At 4:00am delegates agreed to an historic decision to list nine new chemicals in the Convention, a decision on financial resources and other outstanding decisions. COP4 President Moaiyeri gavelled the meeting to a close at 4:37 am.
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BREAKING
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4:37am
– after agreeing a package decisions including on nine
new chemicals and the financial mechanism, the meeting
was closed at 4:37am. |
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| COP4 President Alireza Moaiyeri,
Iran, gavelled the meeting to a close at
4:37 am. |
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3:59am Stockholm COP takes historic decision and agrees to list nine new chemicals in the Convention. |
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| Delegates
discussed text on PFOS. |
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| UNEP
Executive Director Achim Steiner
in a discussion with China. |
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12:33am delegates agree
on package deal, plenary suspended to produce decision document. |
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| Karl
Falkenberg, European Commission |
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| UNEP Executive
Director Achim Steiner, in a discussion
with Iran. |
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10:52pm – plenary adjourns to wait for financial
mechanism and technical assistance draft decision
documentation.
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| Contact group on financial resources
and technical assistance in session late
into the night. |
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10:40 pm plenary reconvenes and considers draft decisions on new chemicals.
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| Delegates
crunching numbers in the contact group
on budget. |
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Delegates
from the Australia, Canada and the US in a
huddle before the start of the evening plenary. |
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10:02pm plenary reconvenes in an informal manner. |
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| L-R: David
Ogden, Secretariat; COP4 President Alireza Moaiyeri, Iran;
Donald Cooper, Executive
Secretary, Stockholm Convention; Masa Nagai,
Secretariat; and Bakary Kante, UNEP |
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19:45 pm – Argentina offers to host COP5, plenary adjourned until budget and financial resources and technical assistance groups have completed work. |
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| Delegates
scrambling for documents. |
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Delegates
from Argentina. |
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HIGH-LEVEL
PLENARY |
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The dais during Friday's high-level plenary,
Bakary Kante, UNEP; Achim Steiner,
UNEP Executive Director; COP4 President
Alireza Moaiyeri, Iran; Donald Cooper,
Executive
Secretary, Stockholm Convention; and David
Ogden, Secretariat. |
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Ruben Zackhras, Minister, Office of the
President, Marshall Islands, in a conversation
with Tetabo Nakara, Minister of
Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development,
Kiribati; UNEP Executive Director Achim
Steiner, gave his address to the COP4
high-level plenary; Osvaldo Alvarez-Perez,
Chile. |
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| Hele
Pierre, Minister of
Environment and Nature Protection,
Cameroon |
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| Nikola
Ruzinsky, State Secretary,
Ministry of Environmental Protection,
Physical Planning and Construction,
Croatia |
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| Adel
Al-Zayami, Vice-Minister of the
Environment, Bahrain |
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Claudia Mora-Pineda, Vice-Minister
for Environment, Colombia |
Khieu
Muth, Vice-Minister of Environment, Cambodia |
Luis
María Couyoupetrou, Undersecretary,
Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable
Development, Argentina |
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CONTACT GROUPS: |
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| María Cristina
Cárdenas-Fischer, Secretariat, and
Co-Chair Jozef Buys,
Belgium, in
the contact group on financial resources
and technical assistance. |
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Contact
group on financial resources
and technical assistance drafting
text. |
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SNAPSHOTS:
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| ENB Team L-R: Pia
Kohler, Switzerland; Anne Roemer-Mahler,
Germany; Nancy Williams, US; Jessica
Templeton, US; Melanie Ashton,
Australia; Tallash Kantai, Kenya; and Franz
Dejon, Canada |
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