29th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photos

20/03/2003
29th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee
Gland, Switzerland, 26-28 February 2003


Photos of the Panama signing and standing ovation

28 February 2003

Ambassador Anel Enrique Beliz G. of Panama and Delmar Blasco of Ramsar signing an agreement on the creation in Panama of the Regional Ramsar Centre for Training and Research on Wetlands in the Western Hemisphere

"Nice doing business with you."

At the end of SC29, an ovation for the Secretary General, who will be departing from the Bureau in August 2003 after eight years of dedicated service.

Flowers from Gordana Beltram, sake from the delegate from Japan

"You got any more of that sake over there?"

Carlos Villalba's collages of Delmar-photos for signing by everybody

The sake is opened to general hilarity.

A queue forms to sign the photo-collage.

"Any more sake left?"

Signing the collages (right)

 

-- Photographs by D. Peck, V. Higgins, and S. Dereliev, Ramsar
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