30th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- List of Participants

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(as of 16 January 2004)

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VOTING MEMBERS

AFRICA

• Botswana: Mr Edward MALOISO, Mr Comfort MOLOSIWA
• Ghana: Mr B. Yaw OFORI-FRIMPONG
• Morocco: Mr Mohammed HAFFANE

ASIA

• Indonesia: Dr Widodo S. RAMONO, Mr Ade PETRANTO
• Iran: Mr Javad AMIN MANSOUR (Vice Chair), Mr Masoud BAGHERZADEH KARIMI,
  Ms Yasaman RAJABKHAH
• Japan: Mr Hidenobu SOBASHIMA, Minister, Mr Tomoyuki OSHINO, Mr Kazuhiro OKUMA,
  Ms Mayumi SUZUKI, Ms Shiho KANIE, Mr Makoto KOMODA

EUROPE

• Armenia: Dr Karen JENDEREDJIAN
• Austria: Dr Günter LIEBEL, Dr Gerhard SIGMUND, Mr Wolfgang PELIKAN
• Romania: Mr Virgil MUNTEANU
• Slovenia: Dr Gordana BELTRAM (Chair), Ms Alenka MARKOV

NEOTROPICS

• Argentina: Lic. Victoria LICHTSCHEIN, Ms Andrea REPETTI
• Bahamas: Mr John BOWLEG
• Nicaragua: Ing. Milton CAMACHO BONILLA

NORTH AMERICA

• Canada: Mr Trevor SWERDFAGER (Chair of Subgroup on Finance), Mr Stephen VIRC, Mr Karim AMEGAN

OCEANIA

• Papua New Guinea: Dr Navu KWAPENA

Hosts of COP8 and COP9

• Spain: Mr José Ramón PICATOSTE
• Uganda: Mr Paul MAFABI (Chair of Subgroup on COP9), Mr Nathan NDOBOLI

OBSERVERS

Permanent Observers

• Switzerland: Dr Meinrad KÜTTEL, Dr Olivier BIBER
• The Netherlands: Ir. Henk J. EGGINK
• BirdLife International: Mr David PRITCHARD
• IUCN - The World Conservation Union: Mr Achim STEINER, Dr Jean-Yves PIROT
• Wetlands International: Dr Douglas TAYLOR, Mr Tunde OJEI
• WWF International: Mr Andreas WURZER, Mr Denis LANDENBERGUE

CP Observers

• Algeria: Ms Dalal SOLTANI
• Australia: Dr Max FINLAYSON (Chair of STRP)
• Colombia: Mr Ricardo VELÉZ BENEDETTI
• Czech Republic: Dr Libuse VLASAKOVA
• Dominican Republic: Ms Magaly BELLO DE KEMPER
• France: Mr Pierre-Emmanuel VOS
• Israel: Mr Haim WAXMAN
• Madagascar: Mr Rochel RAKOTONARIVO
• Mexico: Sra. Eva PIZANO CEJKA
• Slovak Republic: Dr Jan KADLECIK, Ms Adriána KLINDOVÁ
• Tanzania: Mr Charles MDOE
• UK: Ms Louise VALL, Mr Colin MCLEOD
• USA: Ms Joyce W. NAMDE, Dr Herbert RAFFAELE, Ms Lynette POULTON KAMAKURA

Other Observers

• Millennium Assessment: Mr Walt REID (Director)
• Fundación Proteger (Argentina): Lic. Jorge CAPPATO, Director General (CEPA focal point)

Interpreters

• Ms Susan BIEGEL
• Ms Java DENKINGER
• Ms Régine JOBA
• Ms Eleanor KANTER
• Ms Micheline KARAM-CLEUSIX
• Ms Luz PAZOS

Staff Convention Secretariat

• Peter BRIDGEWATER, Secretary General
• Nick DAVIDSON, Deputy Secretary General

In alphabetical order -

• Nassima AGHANIM
• Margarita ASTRÁLAGA
• Abou BAMBA
• Estelle GIRONNET
• Sandra HAILS
• Valerie HIGGINS
• Mireille KATZ
• Annette KELLER
• Paulette KENNEDY
• Alain LAMBERT
• Guangchun LEI
• Dwight PECK (rapporteur of SC30)
• Liazzat RABBIOSI
• Montse RIERA
• Tobias SALATHÉ
• Sebastià SEMENE
• Ibrahim SHAAME
• Iván VALENCIA

MedWet Coordination Unit:

• Spyros KOUVELIS