Key Documents of the Ramsar Convention

Recommendation 5.11 on the new Bureau headquarters in Switzerland

5th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
Kushiro, Japan
9-16 June 1993

Recommendation 5.11: The new Bureau headquarters in Switzerland

RECALLING that the offices of the Ramsar Bureau are situated at the Headquarters of IUCN - The World Conservation Union, at Gland, in the Canton of Vaud, Confederation of Switzerland;

GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGING the offer made by the Swiss authorities to provide a permanent headquarters for IUCN - The World Conservation Union, which would include appropriate space for the Ramsar Bureau;

THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES

EXPRESSES ITS SATISFACTION at the reports received at the present meeting that the Convention Bureau was able to occupy its new offices in August 1992;

THANKS IUCN - The World Conservation Union for the arrangements made to provide accommodation of appropriate style and size for the Ramsar Bureau; and

EXPRESSES ITS SPECIAL THANKS to the Swiss authorities at all levels - the Commune of Gland, the Canton of Vaud and the Swiss Confederation - for its generosity in providing the necessary financial support for the splendid new facilities, as well as many other forms of support and services.

For more information about the Resolutions and Recommendations of the Kushiro COP or the Ramsar Convention itself, 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 ). Posted 17 February 1997, updated 9 March 2000, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.