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MALTA GOVERNMENT THANKED FOR ACTIVE PART IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN (MAP)
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16/11/2001
16/11/2001
| Dr Klaus Topfer, Executive Director of the United | Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this morning addressed the 12th meeting of the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention which is being held in Monaco. He spoke about the activities of the Mediterranean Action Programme (MAP). He praised Malta’s part in this programme and also thanked the Maltese Government for its active part in promoting the activities in this sector during the two years Dr Francis Zammit Dimech, Minister for the Environment for Malta, was President of this Mediterranean organization. He thanked Malta "for the drive forward that Malta has given to the Mediterranean Action Programme". |
| Today’s session was taken by speeches delivered by | various ministers. Minister Francis Zammit Dimech spoke of the importance of more information structures dealing with sustainable development in the Mediterranean area. |
| An important meeting of the of the Desertification | Convention was also held today. At the desertification meeting 14 ministers from countries of the Contracting Parties of the Barcelona Convention took part. The Secretary of the Desertification Convention had a meeting with representatives of the Governments of Malta and Cyprus about cooperation between the two governments in the field of desertification. |
| The Minister for the Environment Dr Francis Zammit | Dimech had another meeting with Prince Albert of Monaco. |
| The 12th meeting of the Contracting | Parties of the Barcelona Convention is due to end tomorrow after adopting a declaration to be presented by the Mediterranean region at the World Summit on Sustainable Development which is due to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002. |
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