Seventh Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands - Report of the Australian Delegation
Environment Australia, 1999
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The Australian Delegation was headed by Stephen Hunter, Head of the Biodiversity Group of Environment Australia. Representation on the delegation from organisations other than Environment Australia included the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ANZECC Standing Committee on Conservation and the Australian Wetlands Alliance.
The delegation secured support for the three resolutions put forward by Australia to the Conference with amendments that were in many cases welcome. Consistent with its brief, Australia's active support for the Convention was emphasised and the nomination of four new Australian Ramsar sites announced.
There was some frustration that the Conference had to devote substantial time to the 'political' issues of regionalisation and Yugoslavia. However it is notable that both were satisfactorily resolved without undue tension or use of time. The emergence of issues and the presence on many delegations of officers of foreign ministries may indicate that the Ramsar Convention is growing in stature and political and policy weight.
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