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Charles Basset
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Tuesday, 2
October 2001
On their second day of work, delegates met in a morning Plenary and considered outstanding organizational issues and adjourned for the day, paving way for a brief morning and afternoon COW sessions that considered programme and budget issues and subsequently set up three contact groups to consider further programme and budget, legal and CCD implementation aspects. The CST met in morning and afternoon sessions and considered organizational matters, the report of the CST Bureau, the survey and evaluation of networks, the establishment of the Roster of Experts and improving CST efficiency and effectiveness |
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Jozef Buys
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Jozef Buys, Belgium, of behalf of
EU
stated the need to mainstream NAPs into national strategies for
sustainable development, stressed the need to promote synergies
between multilateral environment agreements (MEAs) and supported
GEF efforts to increase support for dryland management
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CCD Executive Secretary Hama Arba Diallo
elaborated
on the Secretariat’s interventions since COP-4 at national,
subregional and regional levels in all regions of the world, and its
work with NGOs
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Chair
Mohammed Jabbari, Iran, opened the first session of the
Committee of the Whole (COW)
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Mohammed Reza Jabbari
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Ali Mojtahed Shabestari
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Ali Mojtahed Shabestari
on behalf of the
G-77/CHINA noted, inter alia
the importance of the 2002-3 budget, the need for the Secretariat to
strengthen the Ad Hoc
Working Group (AHWG) on national reports and to adopt strategic
decisions for the WSSD. They also supported the possibility of a GEF
designating a focal area for land degradation and the creation of a
standing organ as a subsidiary body of the COP to monitor CCD
implementation
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Franklin
Moore (left), head of the US delegation speaks with Rogatien
Biaou, the representative of Benin
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COMMITTEE
ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Ahmed Cissoko
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Left to right: Ahmed Cissoko, Philbert Brown, Ndegwa
Ndiang'ui
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Philbert
Brown
called the first session of the CST to order. Delegates elected
four CST Vice Chairs: Moussa Hassane, Niger, for the Africa Group;
Abdel-Majid Khabour, Jordan, for the Asia Group; Marija Vihovanec,
Croatia, for the Eastern European Group; and Helmut Woehl,
Germany, for the Western European and Others Group. Helmut Woehl
will also function as Rapporteur. Delegates then adopted the
agenda and organization of work, following minor scheduling
changes
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Philbert Brown
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Willem van Cotthem
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Willem van Cotthem, Belgium on behalf of the
EU suggested the formation of a task force composed of a group of ad
hoc panels, organizing the program of work around knowledge, impact,
mitigation and results
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Gaoussou
Traor�, CILSS,
suggested that NGOs accredited with the CCD could appoint experts to
diversify the roster
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Gaoussou Traor�
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Kazuhiko Takeuchi
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Professor,
Landscape Ecology and Planning, Dept Ecosystem Studies, University
of Tokyo, Japan, during the afternoon session of the CST
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Pape Mawade Wade,
Senegal,
underscored the responsibility of countries to involve and put
forward NGO experts
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Pape Mawade Wade
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Timo Maukonen
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Timo Maukonen,
UNEP,
called for stronger global environment governance with links to
poverty alleviation, and stressed the linkages between trade, land
degradation and development among stakeholders, as well as the need
to support local community participation
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Chinese participants in the COW
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Patrick
Szell, UK, was nominated as chair of the contact
group on legal matters
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Patrick Szell
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CCD Executive Secretary Hama Arba Diallo, left,
confers with a member of Secretariat
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Otto Gustafik, Commitee Secretary, ECOSOC
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View from the Palais des Nations
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