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11 June 2007, Issue No. 7

Daily working programme – Monday 11 June

When

What

Where

9h00 – 11h00

Meetings of Parties on a regional basis

 

- Africa

Atlantic

- Asia

Mississippi

- Central and South America and the Caribbean

Amazon

- Europe

World Forum Theater

- North America

Yangtze 2

- Oceania

Everest 1

 

11h00 – 12h00

Committee I

Prop. 17

World Forum Theater

11h00 – 12h00

Committee II
Agenda items* 27, 33,
34, 36 and 40

Atlantic

 

14h00 – 17h00

Committee I
Proposals Nos 18, 19 and 20

World Forum Theater

14h00 – 17h00

Committee II
Agenda items* 42, 43, 44,
46, 48 and 49

Atlantic

*The order of items taken is subject to change

Other meetings – Monday 11 June

When

What

Where

11h00

Working Group on Sharks
(agenda items 59.1 and 59.2)

Onyx A

12h00 – 14h00 (also meeting in late afternoon. See below)

Budget Working Group

Yangtze 1

12h15 – 13h45

Working Group on the CITES Strategic Vision: 2008-2013 (agenda item 11)

Atlantic

12h00 – 13h45

Working Group on the Periodic Review of the Appendices (agenda item 66)

Kilimanjaro 1

12h30 – 13h45

The Caribbean Group

Mississippi

12h30 – 14h00

Prunus africana Working Group

Everest 1

18h00 – 18h30

Bureau

Yangtze 1

17h00 – 19h00

Budget Working Group

Yangtze 2

Other meetings – Monday 11 June

To be determined

Working Group on the Review
of Scientific Committees
(agenda item 12)

To be announced

To be determined

Working Group on Hawksbill Turtle (agenda item 58)

To be announced

To be determined

Working Group on Sturgeons and Paddlefish (agenda item 60.2)

To be announced

Press briefings – Monday 11 June

When

What

Where

12h30 – 13h00

Elephant issues (press only)

Speakers:

– Tom de Meulenaer, Coordinator, MIKE programme, CITES Secretariat;

– John Sellar, Senior Officer, Anti-smuggling, Fraud and Organized Crime, CITES Secretariat; and
– Holly Dublin, IUCN

Press conference room
South America

Other briefings – Monday 11 June

17h30 (daily, unless otherwise announced)

Daily briefings by the delegation of the United States of America for non-governmental organizations

Crowne Plaza – Promenade, Van Stolkweg 1, The Hague, in the Staten Zaal room

Side events – Monday 11 June

When

What

Who

Where

12h30 – 14h00

A special viewing of "The untold elephant story of Southern Africa!"

Kitso Mokaila, Minister of the Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, Botswana

Amazon

12h30 – 13h45

The last stand of the orang-utan, illegal logging, fire and palm oil in Indonesia's national parks

UNEP/GRASP Secretariat

Yangtze 2

17h00 – 19h10

End tiger trade

International Tiger Coalition: 35 organizations. Event lead by WWF, TRAFFIC
and STF

World Forum Theater Foyer, 2nd floor (cocktail reception)

17h30 – 18h30

Spiny lobster

Government of Brazil

Amazon

 

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