30th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photos -- Plenaries
04/03/2004
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| 30th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee Gland, Switzerland, 13-16 January 2004 |
Photos of the Plenary Sessions
The head table (from left): the rapporteur; Nick Davidson and Peter Bridgewater, Secretariat; Gordana Beltram (Slovenia), Chair; Javad Amin Mansour (Iran), Vice-Chair.
Plenary, in IUCN's Great Hall of the Conservationists
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Indonesia (left); Botswana and Ghana (right)
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The Welcoming Statements (from left): Achim Steiner, IUCN; Peter Bridgewater, Ramsar; Andreas Wurzer, WWF on behalf of the four International Organization Partners
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The plenary discussions, with interpreters' booths above
Ghana, with Ramsar's new Senior Advisor for Africa, Abou Bamba
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Argentina, Bahamas, Nicaragua (left); (right) Austria in the center
The Secretary General, Chair, and Vice-Chair
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Left: (foreground left) Achim Steiner and Jean-Yves Pirot, IUCN
Right: (from left) Alain Lambert (Ramsar), Spyros Kouvelis (MedWet), Max Finlayson (Australia and STRP), Henk Eggink (Netherlands)
The view from a higher plane of existence . . .
. . . to help put it all into perspective.
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Left: Paul Mafabi (Uganda), Chair of the Subgroup on COP9; Right, center: Canada, Chair of the Subgroup on Finance -- Trevor Swerdfager and Stephen Virc
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(left) Japan; (right) the USA
(back row) Slovak Republic, Czech Republic; (front row) Austria, Switzerland
A laugh a minute
The head table, with Dr Walt Reid (second from right), director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
