The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

Photos of the West and Central Asian Subregional Meeting, February 2002

Photographs of the meetings

H. E. Dr Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice-President and Head of the Department of the Environment, welcomes the participants

The head table: Mr A. M. Gokhale, India, Mr Asghar Mohammadi Fazel, Iran, Mr Nick Davidson, Ramsar Bureau.

The opening session (Mr Javad Amin Mansour of Iran in the left foreground; Vice-President Ebtekar; on the aisle, Mr Anoushirvan Najafi, Deputy Head of the Department of the Environment)

Mr Dave Pritchard, BirdLife International	Mr Najam Khurshid, Ramsar Bureau

Najam Khurshid's presentation

Azerbaijan and Bangladesh

NGO Row (from right): Biksham Gujja, WWF International: C. L. Trisal and Taej Mundkur, Wetlands International; Dave Pritchard, BirdLife International

Other international NGOs and regional organizations

Dinner

Mr Anoushirvan Najafi, Iran

Nick Davidson, Ramsar Bureau

Mr Peiman Seadat, Iran

Ms Jia MA, Ramsar Bureau

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 12 March 2002, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.