Showing posts with label Cali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cali. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Pan African Responsibilities

Kabir Bavikatte as per the request of the chairperson of the African Group of ABS negotiators developed a briefing document on ABS for African ministers who will be attending the Pan African Ministerial Conference in Windhoek from the 8th to 10th of March 2010. Kabir Bavikatte as the team-leader of the African team of drafters along with Olivier Rukundo an associate of Natural Justice, has helped prepare briefing documents for the African Group of negotiators to aid them in their preparations for the 9th Meeting of the Working Group on ABS to be held in Cali, Colombia from the 22nd to the 28th of March 2010.

African Group Advisory Role

Kabir Bavikatte along with Olivier Rukundo has been chosen to be an advisor to the African delegation to participate in the Co-Chairs Informal Inter-regional Consultation (CIIC) in Cali from the 16th to the 18th of March 2010. The CIIC which has been mandated to consult on preambular text, definitions and provisions relevant to the consolidation of operative text of the International Regime, will identify concrete solutions in order to facilitate and accelerate the negotiations at the 9th meeting of the Working Group on ABS