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Opening statements (No documents) |
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Chair of the Standing Committee (United Arab Emirates) |
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Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) |
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International Organization Partners |
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Secretary General of the Convention |
Procedural matters
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Adoption of the provisional agenda |
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Adoption of the provisional working programme (SC58 Doc.3) |
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Admission of observers (SC58 Doc.4) |
Administrative and financial matters
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Report of the Executive Team and Chair of the Standing Committee |
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Report of the Secretary General |
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Report of the Management Working Group (Document to be confirmed) |
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Financial and budgetary matters: Report of the Subgroup on Finance |
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Report of the auditor on the financial statements 2019 (Included in item 8.2: no document) |
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Report on financial matters for 2019 and 2020 |
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8.3 |
Status of annual contributions |
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Strategic matters
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Urgent challenges to the wise use of wetlands to receive enhanced attention: Best practices in the development of wetland inventories |
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Report of the Working Group on the Review of the Strategic Plan of the Ramsar Convention |
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Report of the Effectiveness Working Group (No document) |
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Review of the Rules of Procedure |
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Review of all previous Resolutions and decisions |
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Report of the Working Group on Observer status in the United Nations General Assembly (SC58 Doc.14) |
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Communication, capacity building, education, participation and awareness (CEPA) |
15.1 |
Report of the CEPA Oversight Panel |
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15.2. |
Report of the Secretariat on World Wetlands Day (No document) |
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Implementation of Resolution XIII.1 on World Wetlands Day (declaration by the United Nations General Assembly) (No document) |
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Work plan of the Secretariat for 2020 |
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Management of requests for data |
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Enhancing the Convention’s visibility and synergies with other multilateral environmental agreements and other international institutions |
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Scientific matters
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Report of the Chair of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel |
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Implementation matters
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Preparation of COP14 |
20.1 |
Report of the Subgroup on COP14 (No document) |
20.2 |
Report of the Secretariat on COP14 |
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20.3 |
The Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards |
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20.4 |
Process for preparation, submission and review of draft resolutions |
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Update on the status of Sites on the List of Wetlands of International Importance |
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Ramsar Regional Initiatives |
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Report of the Ramsar Regional Initiatives Working Group (Document to be confirmed) |
22.2. |
Report of the Secretariat on the Ramsar Regional Initiatives |
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22.3. |
Legal status of Ramsar Regional Initiatives |
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22.4. |
Review of Ramsar Regional Initiatives Resolutions and decisions |
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Report of the Co-chairs of the Independent Advisory Committee on Wetland City Accreditation |
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Concluding matters (No documents)
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Dates of the 59th meeting of the Standing Committee |
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Adoption of the report of the meeting |
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Any other business |
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Closing remarks |