Summary
The third meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-3) opened in Nairobi on Wednesday morning. Following welcome statements by OECPR Chair John Moreti (Botswana) and UN Environment Programme Executive Director Erik Solheim, representatives of regional groups and Member States made opening statements. Delegates then adopted the organization of work and established five contact groups to finalize draft decisions and resolutions that will be forwarded to the third UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-3). In the afternoon, UNEA-3 President Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta briefed delegates on the status of consultations on the ministerial outcome document.
Contact group discussion of draft resolutions as well as the UNEA-3 ministerial outcome document continued into the evening.
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From L-R: OECPR Chair John Moreti, Botswana; Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UN Environment Programme; and UNEA President Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
Committee of Permanent Representatives (CPR) Vice-Chair Elizabeth Taylor, Colombia
Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
OECPR Chair John Moreti, Botswana
UNEA President Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
Sebastian Gil, EU
CPR Vice-Chair Raza Bashir Tarar, Pakistan
Agrina Mussa, Malawi
Martin Gomez Bustillo, Argentina
Erasmo Martínez, Mexico
Jillian Dempster, New Zealand
Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UN Environment Programme
Delegates from the EU confer
Contact Group 3
Wilson Sumner, US
Contact Group 3 Chair Tarja Fernández, Finland
Zaid Noori, Iraq
Maria Lemos, Colombia
Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine
Eduardo Alcibíades Sánchez Kiesslich, Mexico
Contact Group 2
Majella Pua-Diezmos, the Philippines
Contact Group 2 Chair Elizabeth Taylor, Colombia
Pedro Tiê Candido Souza, Brazil
Hussein Roshdy, Egypt
Sverre Thomas Jahre, Norway
Simon Cardy, South Africa
Ndoboli Nathan, Uganda
Belsis Llorente Díaz, Cuba
Ruth Kitonyi, Kenya
Participants in discussions
Around the venue
Stakeholders with UNEA President Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica and Marta Juarez Ruiz, Ambassador on Special Mission to UN Environment Programme, Costa Rica (center)
