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Participants in the 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee
List of Participants in the 20th Meeting of the Standing Committee
29 September - 3 October 1997
| MEMBERS | OBSERVERS: CONTRACTING PARTIES |
| Africa | Argentina (Guillermo Lingua, Diego Malpede) |
| Senegal (Abdoulaye N'Diaye) | Austria (Reinhold Turk) |
| Alternate: Uganda (Paul Mafabe) | Bulgaria (Rakovski S. Lashev) |
| Asia | Greece (Sofia Markopoulou) |
| Malaysia (Ali Hamidon, Ahmad Jazri) | Japan (Keiichi Kawase) |
| Alternate: Iran, Islamic Republic of (Borhan Riazi, Mohammad Reza Salamat) | Jordan (Abdel Rahim Al-Wreikat) |
| Eastern Europe | Republic of Korea (Sang Hoon Kim, Tae Yoon Park) |
| Hungary, Chair (Louise Lakos) | Trinidad and Tobago (Nadra Nathai-Gyan) |
| Alternate: Russian Federation (Igor I. Movtchan, Sergey Tveritinov) | UK (Linda Smith, David Stroud) |
| Neotropics | Zambia (Musonda Mumba) |
| Uruguay, Vice-Chair (Roberto Cal Johnston, Laura Dupuy) | OTHER OBSERVERS |
| Alternate: Panama (Elia Guerra Quijano) | BirdLife International (John O'Sullivan, David Pritchard) |
| North America | Conservatoire du Littoral (Christophe Lefebvre) |
| USA (Gilberto Cintron Molero, Herbert Raffaele) | Scientific and Technical Review Panel (Mihaly Végh) |
| Alternate: Canada (Clayton Rubec) | WWF International (Bikshamaiah Gujja, Cassandra Phillips) |
| Oceania | Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (Doug Hulyer) |
| Papua New Guinea (Samuel Antiko) | SECRETARIAT |
| Western Europe | Secretary General (Delmar Blasco) |
| Germany (M. Kalbitzer, Christa Wolf) | Senior Policy Advisor (Michael Smart) |
| Alternate: France (François Lerat) | Deputy Secretary General (Bill Phillips) |
| Host of the 1999 Conference | Regional Coordinator for Africa (Tom Kabii) |
| Costa Rica (Rafael Carrillo, Manfred Peters, Marco A. Solano Martinez) | Regional Coordinator for Asia (Rebecca D'Cruz) |
| Host of the 1996 Conference | Regional Coordinator for Europe (Tim Jones) |
| Australia (Alison Shepherd) | Regional Coordinator for the Neotropics (Montserrat Carbonell) |
| PERMANENT OBSERVERS | MedWet Coordinator (Thymio Papayannis) |
| Netherlands (Gerard Boere) | Executive Assistant.for Communications/Rapporteur (Dwight Peck) |
| Switzerland (Anne Bauty, Meinrad Küttel) | Administrator (Julia Tucker) |
| IUCN (Hans Berggren, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, George Greene, Maria Grazia Iuri, David McDowell, Jean-Yves Pirot, Alex de Sherbinin) | Administrative Assistant (Paulette Kennedy) Programme Assistant for SGF (Annette Pavlic) Communications Assistant (Valerie Higgins) |
| Wetlands International (Scott Frazier, Michael Moser, Marcel Silvius) | Assistant to Deputy Secretary General (Stefan Niederberger) |
| Office Clerk (Montserrat Riera) | |
| Interns (Ahoua Traoré, Maryse Mahy, Raquel Sigüenza de Micheo) |
For further
information, 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 21 October 1997,
Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
