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Update:
Delegates
to MOP-11/COP-5 met in an afternoon Plenary to take up outstanding items
and consider draft decisions under the MOP-11/COP-5 agenda relating to,
inter alia: the Trust Funds of the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol;
process agents; and CFC management strategies in non-Article 5 Parties.
Seven draft decisions were adopted. Delegates also presented a gift to
Executive Secretary K. Madhava Sarma, who will soon retire from the Ozone
Secretariat, and expressed their gratitude to him for his work. Informal
consultations met to consider: proposed adjustments and an amendment to
the Montreal Protocol; replenishment of the Multilateral Fund; the fixed
currency rate mechanism; the Beijing Declaration; and the budget.
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On
Wednesday, delegates not involved in the closed meetings spent the
morning talking in the corridors, or, as is the case of the participant
seated in the middle of this picture, reading the ENB. |
| Co-Chair
Uosukainen (Finland) presented K. Madhava Sarma, who will soon retire
from his position as Executive Secretary of the Ozone Secretariat,
with a Chinese work of art containing an inscription expressing Parties�
appreciation and gratitude for his nine years of service. |
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The
words of the Chinese inscription on the wall hanging were also presented
to Executive Secretary Sarma in large format. |
Shafqat Kakakhel, Deputy Executive Director of UNEP, characterized
Sarma as one of the major architects of the ozone agreements and
a shining example of international solidarity on behalf of the environment.
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CANADA introduced a draft decision on a fixed currency rate mechanism
for the Multilateral Fund, which was the outcome of a working group
he had chaired. He noted, inter alia, that the decision provided
for such a mechanism to be implemented on a trial basis and evaluated
prior to the next replenishment.
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Co-Chair Uosukainen reported that the working group on the replenishment
of the Multilateral Fund for the period 2000-2002 is now considering
two options, one that includes concessional arrangements and another
that omits them.
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On imports and exports of products and equipment relying on Annex
A and Annex B substances, INDIA
said there were a number of technical issues to be considered,
particularly in relation to compliance with the WTO. |
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said the World Customs Organization should consider this issue of
imports and exports of ODS. |
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The EC, on behalf of the EU, introduced its proposed draft decision
on quarantine and pre-shipment, which requests the TEAP, in its 2002
report, to: evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of alternative
treatments and procedures that can replace MB for quarantine and pre-shipment
(QPS); and estimate the volume of MB that would be replaced by implementing
feasible alternatives. |
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The PHILIPPINES, reporting on progress in negotiations on the Beijing
Declaration, said the group is working on a draft text to be considered
during the meeting�s High-level Segment. |
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On the definition of pre-shipment applications of methyl bromide,
CHINA said it had consulted with the EU and a decision on this matter
was contingent on a package of decisions under consideration on the
EU's proposed adjustments and amendment. |
| Kimo
Goree, Managing Editor of the ENB (left) in pre-plenary discussion
with John Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda |
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View
of the plenary hall from the back of the stage, moments before the
close of the prepatory segment of MOP-11/COP-5 |
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