29th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee -- Photos

Photos of the Convivial Reception

26 February 2003

Deluxe venue for the Grand Reception, in the IUCN lobby, with all the comforts that a lobby can offer

After a hard day of chairsitting . . .

Isabelle Vial (France) and Tobias Salathé; Trevor Swerdfager (Canada) and Anada Tiéga (right)

The Secretary General approaches the wine bar

Montse & José Ramon (left); Annette & Mr Ankouz of Morocco (right)

Nassima Aghanim and Jia Ma of the Ramsar Bureau	Nancy MacPherson of IUCN

Former STRP member Makoto Komoda (Japan) and Herb Raffaele (USA)

Sergei Dereliev (left); Alain Lambert and Gerhard Sigmund

The Grimace Rangers: Annette Keller and Sergei Dereliev (Ramsar) and Javad Amin Mansour (Iran)

IUCN worthies: Jeff McNeeley, Jean-Yves Pirot, Sue Mainka

Gordana Beltram (Slovenia), Olivier Biber (Switzerland), Alain Lambert (Ramsar)	Louise Vall and Elizabeth Moore (UK), Dwight Peck (Ramsar)

Proceed to SC29 Reception, File 2

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