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United
Nations Conference for the Negotiation of a Successor Agreement to
the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994, 4th part |
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1627
January 2006 | Geneva, Switzerland
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Highlights
from Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Negotiations at the UN Conference on the Negotiation of the
Successor Agreement to the International Tropical Timber
Agreement, 1994 (ITTA, 1994), Fourth Part went into the
evening as delegates continued to work on unfinished aspects
of the text. While Working Group I (WGI) achieved some
progress in the morning, Working Group II did not meet, but
contact groups met during the day to discuss articles on
finance and Entry Into Force. In the evening a number of
delegates met with President Paranhos and managed to clean
more text, but remained entrenched over EC membership,
ratification, assessments and votes. |
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Working
Group I
Working Group I contact groups achieved progress on
Objectives and Distribution of Votes, and presented their
proposed compromises to the group. |
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Delegates met during the Working Group I before
breaking for informal consultations |
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Regarding the Preamble,
WGI
Chair Alhassan Attah, Ghana, said the Legal
Drafting Group (LDG) suggested deleting reference to
the Declaration and the Programme of Action on the
Establishment of a New International Economic Order,
the Bangkok Plan of Action and the New Partnership
for Development |
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On Membership by IGOs, the contact group, in
discussing voting matters within IGOs, agreed to
delete reference to the assessment of
contributions to the Administrative Account.
Photo: John Bazill, European
Commission |
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Bjorg Merethe Luis, Norway, requested
time to consult with Oslo regarding deletion of
text on Certification |
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On encouraging information sharing on
transparent and voluntary market mechanisms such
as certification, Iwan Krolis, Suriname,
reported that the informal contact group had not
been able to reconcile Producer and Consumer
positions |
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On enhancing capacity of “Producer” members to
achieve the Agreement’s Objectives, Kathryn Youel Page, US,
noted that a group was negotiating this
Objective and suggested postponing discussion |
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On enhancing capacity of “Producer” members to
achieve the Agreement’s Objectives,
Hoda S. Rashed, Egypt, urged deleting the
term “Producer” as this would unnecessarily
preclude consumer developing countries from
benefiting from this clause |
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Working Group I broke into contact groups for consultation
on Objectives, Membership by IGOs, and Special Votes. |
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Left to right: Erika del Rocio López Rojas,
Mexico,
James Gasana, Switzerland, Renzo Silva,
Venezuela,
and
Rubén Dario Guerrero Useda,
Colombia |
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Left to right: Angela Chavez Bietti
and José Rolando Zanotti, Guatemala |
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Afternoon and Evening Meetings
Working Group II (WGII) contact groups met throughout the
morning. Producer and Consumer Groups caucused over lunch,
followed by an EU coordination meeting. A group of
delegates, invited by President Paranhos, met at 18:00 in an
attempt to reach consensus on remaining areas of dispute. |
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Links
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UNCTAD’s
website for the ITTA, 1994 renegotiation, 4th part.
Includes the provisional agenda and supporting documents
ITTO
Secretariat
UNFF
Website
FAO
UNFF
Secretariat
UNFCCC
Secretariat
CBD
Secretariat
ENB
coverage of ITTC-39
ENB
coverage of the UN Conference for the Negotiation of
a Successor Agreement to the ITTA, 1994 -
Part
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Part
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Part
3
YMB
summary of the Country-Led Initiative “Scoping
for a Future Agreement on Forests”, 16-18 November
2005, Berlin, Germany (HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
ENB
summary from UNFF-5: (English:
HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
(Spanish:
HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
(French:
HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
YMB
summary from the Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement
and Governance Conference, 6-8 June, 2005 Moscow, Russia:
(HTML,
PDF,
TEXT)
YMB
coverage the Europe and North Asia Forest Law Enforcement
and Governance Conference, 22-25 November 2005, St.
Petersburg, Russia
ENB
archives of forestry meetings
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