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Briefing: Tuesday, 10 October |
Delegates met in three Congress sittings throughout the day to address Commissions' mandates, the programme and budget, membership dues, membership policy and voting procedures. The Congress also considered and adopted numerous draft resolutions. |
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23rd, 24th and 25th SITTINGS OF THE CONGRESS | |
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From left to right: Martin Edwards, Elections Officer for WCC-2 (also at WCC-1 in Montreal); Frantisek Urban, Vice-President of UICN and Chair of the 23rd Sitting of the Congress; and Nick Robinson, Chair of the CEL. |
COMMISSIONS' MANDATES: Sir Martin Holdgate, Chair of the Programme
Committee, introduced a motion to amend wording on structure and organization
of Commissions' mandates (CGR2.GOV001). He also discussed the independent
external review.
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Left, and below: delegates holding up their voting cards during votes on resolutions |
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Global Youth Reporters Programme |
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His Excellency Aqul Bultagy, Minister of Tourism of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (left), who was attending on behalf of Queen Rania, spoke on the importance of training youth in environmental activism. Canadian television producers Via Le Monde premiered a short film documenting the development of IUCN's Global Youth Reporters Programme and the efforts of the young reporters committed to environment and sustainable development. |
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Donation of computers |
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The Organizing Committee of WCC-2 and Gateway Computers agreed to donate the 60 computers used by IUCN administration during the Congress. The computers will be distributed to public schools which have initiated programmes or projects with one of the IUCN-Jordan National Committee members or affiliate NGOs. Half of the computers will go to boys' schools, and half to girl's schools; and an even geographic distribution will also be respected. Gateway was represented by Read Dallal, National Gateway Sales Representative (below left, on the right), on behalf of Mike Swalwell, Senior Vice-President; while IUCN Director General Maritta Koch-Weser (below left, left-hand side) represented IUCN. | |
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Below: IUCN-Jordan members accepting certificates representing the donated computers, which will be redeemable after the close of WCC-2. The representatives will then be responsible for bringing the computers to the schools and insuring that adequate training is in place to make use of the computers. The certificated are being awarded by Dr. Alia Buran, National Coordinator of IUCN-Jordan and General Coordinator of WCC-2 (below left, second from the left). | |
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