United
Nations |
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The
Fifteenth
Meeting of the Parties
to the Montreal Protocol
Nairobi,
Kenya, 10 - 14 Nov., 2003
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MOP
15 HIGHLIGHTS
Friday,
14 November
The MOP-15 conference was gavelled to a close today at 7:30pm.
During
the High-Level segment In the morning, delegates made statements.
In the afternoon, the Preparatory Segment was resumed in order
to discuss unresolved issues.
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UN
offices in Nairobi where MOP-15 convened |
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Pakistan highlighted the importance of addressing issues related
to international ilegal trade of ODS |
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MOP-15
was concluded with a final High-Level Segment where draft decisions
were adopted, including the interpretation of the Beijing Ammendment,
the extra-ordinary meeting of the Parties (to be held from 24-26
March 2004) in Montreal, Canada.
Click
here for a full text analysis of MOP-15. |
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Marco González, Executive Secretary of the Ozone Secretariat
and Libor Ambrozek (Czech Republic), President of MOP-15 |
Buddhi Man Tamang, Nepal, reported that his country has put
import licenses in place to stop the illegal trade of ODS |
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 Also
listen to:
and
- Alexander
von Bismarck of the Environmental Investigation Agency
(EIA), the only NGO to make a High-Level statement
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Mohammed Khalil, Egypt, said his country has reduced over 2000
metric tonnes of ODS in 22 factories |
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Delegates
from the Dominican Republic originally proposed the draft
decision on conditions for granting CUEs for Methyl Bromide |
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Audio/Visual
Technitions above the conferece room play a video on the
Czech Republic, location of MOP-16 in 2004. |
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Team members (left
to right): Leslie Paas (Canada); Karen Alvarenga (Brazil);
Kimo Goree (US); Andrey Vavilov (Russia); Changbo Bai
(China); and Juliet Jones (US).
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