Committee on Trade and Environment - Special Session - Statement by the Representative of UNEP on behalf of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Committee on Trade and Environmen[...]its Meeting of 6 - 7 July 2006
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World Trade
Organization TN/TE/INF/10
13 July 2006 (06-3395) Committee on Trade and Environment
Special Session Original: English
STATEMENT BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF UNEP ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARIAT OF THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
TO THE COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT in SPECIAL SESSION at its meeting of 6 7 july 2006
On behalf of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, I wish to thank you for the invitation to attend this meeting. I was requested by the Executive Secretary to the Convention to convey his regrets for not being able to send a representative of the Secretariat. On behalf of the Executive Secretary of the Convention, I am pleased to deliver the following statement, which shall brief you on recent developments with regard to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that are of relevance to the work of this Committee.
As you know, the eighth meeting of the Conference o