Environment in the OPT/Work of Cttee of UNEP Permanent Representatives – 23rd UNEP Governing Council – UNEP Executive Director note (excerpts)

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Twenty-third session of the Governing Council/

Global Ministerial Environment Forum

Nairobi, 21-25 February 2005

Item 4 of the provisional agenda*

Assessment, monitoring and early warning: state of the environment

Outcomes of intergovernmental meetings of relevance to the

Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum

Follow-up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development: contribution

of the United Nations Environment Programme to the forthcoming session

 of the Commission on Sustainable Development

International environmental governance: implementation of decisions

 of the seventh special session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial

Environment Forum and the World Summit on Sustainable Development on

the report of the Intergovernmental Group of Ministers or Their Representatives

on International Environmental Governance,

Cooperation and coordination within the United Nations system

on environmental matters

Programme, the Environment Fund and administrative and other budgetary matters

Report on the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme

Note by the Executive Director

Pursuant to paragraph (k) of decision 19/32 of 4 April 1997, on the governance of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) a report on the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to UNEP since the conclusion of the twenty-second session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum to date is provided in annex I to the present note.  Recommendations of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme for improving future sessions of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, as adopted by the Committee at its eighty-fourth meeting, are also attached, in annex II to the present note.

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*UNEP/GC.23/1.

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Annex I

I. Report of the work of the Committee of Permanent Representatives

A. Minutes of the eighty-second meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Environment Programme, held on 17 March 2003

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Item 4: Review of the outcome of the twenty-second session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum

9. Introducing the item, the Executive Director expressed his appreciation of the contribution made by the Committee and its Bureau to the success of the twenty-second session of Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum. Over 90 ministerial-level participants and nearly 1,000 other delegates had attended the session, the largest numbers ever. A total of 24 decisions had been approved by consensus, among which had been the programme of work and its budget for the 2004-2005 biennium. Some 14 special events had been organized during or in parallel with the session/forum, and 16 guest speakers/special invitees had participated, including Mr. Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal, and Mr. Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Vice-President of the Republic of Kenya. He underlined the useful discussions which had been held during the Ministerial segment on the Commission on Sustainable Development, and in particular on the regional dimensions of development, including the New Programme for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).

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Item 7: Report of the Executive Director on recent activities   

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86. The Executive Director had briefed the Bureau of the Council of Arab Ministers (CAMRE) on three areas, namely, cooperation with CAMRE through the implementation of the regional programme, the desk study of the environment in Iraq and the desk study on the state of the environment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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