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Indonesia is Ready to Host International Environment Ministers Conference
Indonesia's environmental diplomacy has once again achieved international acknowledgement. Indonesia has been entrusted to host an international environment minister's conference in Nusa Dua, Bali from the 21" to the 26th of February, 2010. The 11th Special Session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (SS 11 GC/GMEF) focus on the main theme of "Environment in the Multilateral System", will be the first major environmental forum since the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009. Due to its timely and important nature, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to open this meeting.
The Conference is expected to produce a political declaration on current crucial environment issues such as international environmental governance, green economy and biodiversity as well as other decisions. Indonesia will also pursue a resolution on ocean issues as a follow up to the World Ocean Conference held in Manado last year.
More than 100 environment ministers and 1.200 participants from UN Member States as well as civil society representatives are planned to attend this meeting. The Conference will be preceded by Simultaneous Extraordinary Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (Ex-COP). The Ex-COP will be an "historical" occasion, as it will be he first time a joint meeting of the various Conventions be held in synergy, as envisioned in the decision of the 2005 World Summit, as well as underlined at the COP of Basel Convention in Bali, in 2007. The success of this meeting will become a model for other similar Conventions, such as those of biodiversity and desertification. The State Minister for Environment of the Republic of Indonesia will lead this process.
The confidence that the international community has placed upon Indonesia will be optimized not only through the successful conduct of the conference, but more importantly, through successful results, which in turn, will be used as constructive points of references in the future. To achieve these goals, the Indonesian Delegation will take an active role in achieving consensus in the various decisions that will be made
