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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Monday, 19 July
8h30
9h30
Registration
Plenary I – Opening
Chair – HE Eng. Imad Hassoun, Deputy Minister of Local Administration and
Environment, Syria
- Welcome address by H.E. Eng. Helal Al-Attrash, Minister of Local
Administration and Environment, Syria
- Welcome address by Gabriela Löw, International Affairs Division, Swiss
Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL)
- Welcome address by Basel Al-yousfi, Regional Industry Officer, UNEP
Regional Office for West Asia (include introduction to workshop objectives
and programme)
- Introductions by participants of their expectations
10h30 Coffee & tea break
11h
Plenary II – An introduction to the Conventions
Chair – HE Eng. Imad Hassoun, Deputy Minister of Environment, Syria
- The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), by Jim
Willis, Executive Secretary
- The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, by Sachiko Kuwabara-Yamamoto
- The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Pocedure for
Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, by
Jim Willis, Executive Secretary
- Discussion
12h30
14h
Lunch
Plenary III – The integrated management of chemicals and wastes
Chair – Dr. Akram Khouri, Director General, G.C.E.A., Syria
- Analysis of advance questionnaires submitted by workshop participants, by
Michael Williams, UNEP’s Information Unit for Conventions
- Coordinating the implementation of the three conventions, by Sachiko
Kuwabara-Yamamoto, Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention
- Syria’s environmental laws and by-laws, by HE Eng. Imad Hassoun, Deputy
Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Syria
- Syria’s national experience with integrated management, by Nader Ghazi
- Bahrain’s national experience with integrated management, by Afaf Al-
Shola
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