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Highlights
for Wednesday, 28 September 2005
Delegates met on Wednesday 28 in Plenary for the last
day of IPCC-24. Outstanding issues included Election
Procedures, Outreach, and the IPCC Programme and Budget
for 2006-08.
In the late morning, Plenary
was suspended to allow for contact group discussions on
Rule 20 of the revised draft text on Election Procedures
for IPCC Bureau and Task Force Bureau. Rule 20 addresses
the cases where a country wishes to nominate a candidate
who is not a national of the nominating country. The
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
, the
REPUBLIC
OF
MOLDOVA
, and
SAUDI ARABIA
, opposed by most other delegations, requested the
insertion of new language on text previously agreed in a
contact group. Unable to agree on this, delegates agreed
to continue the discussion on Rule 20 at IPCC-25.
Above photo: David Warrilow (second from left),
Co-Chair of the contact group on Elections
and Procedures in informal consulation with the
delegates from the US and China regarding language on
Rule 20.
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