Rapporteur: Mr. Roberto Stadthagen-Vogl (Nicaragua)

[ Speaking German ] Herr Vogle will help me reach the ship.

Herr Vogle will help me reach the ship.

Consequently, the Commission elected Gerda Vogl (Austria) by acclamation as Vice-Chairperson to replace Ms. Durán.

Ms. Vogl (Austria) said that, in paragraph 15, as orally amended when the draft resolution had been introduced, the phrase “the decision of the Subcommission” should be replaced by the phrase “the proposal of the Subcommission”.

On 27 May 2007, the Team, comprising Lasse Christensen, Team Leader (Denmark), El Hadi Salah (Algeria), Franz Vogl (Germany), Sherrone Blake Lobban (Jamaica) and Gilbert Barthe (Switzerland), convened in Beirut for a three-week field mission with the following mandate:

Opening statements were made by the President of Burkina Faso, Mr. Blaise Compaore, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Mr. Klaus Töpfer, the President of the Bureau of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties, Mr. Roberto Stadthagen Vogl, and an Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Mr. Zephirin Diabre.

Mr. Roberto Stadthagen-Vogl, President of the Bureau of the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties, noted that despite the major progress achieved in the past decade since the adoption of the Helsinki Declaration in 1989, the Parties were facing a number of challenges in the implementation of the Montreal Protocol.