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Workshop | Micronesia | August 2008

Friday 15 August

I. Welcome and Opening Comments

  • The Honorable Temmy L. Shmull, Minister of State of Palau
  • H.R.H. Prince Mired Raad Al-Hussein, 8MSP President PDF 86KB

II. An Overview of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, its Status and its Operations

  • An overview of the Convention’s core aims and how they relate to the States Parties and States not parties in the Pacific (Kerry Brinkert, Director of the AP Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit) PDF 1.1MB

III. The Main Elements of National Implementing Legislation

  • An overview of the main elements of good national implementing legislation (Richard Desgagne, Legal Advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross) PDF 289KB

IV. Practical Means to Comply with Transparency Reporting Obligations

  • An overview of Article 7 reporting obligations and means to fulfil them (Kerry Brinkert, Director of the AP Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit) PDF 302KB

V. Overcoming Unique Challenges to Acceding to the Convention

  • Palau's experience in overcoming unique challenges to acceding to the Convention (Marvin Ngirutang, Foreign Service Officer, Republic of Palau)

 

 

 

 

Explosive remnants of the Second World War can be found in various locations on Palau and elsewhere in Micronesia.

 

Photo of participants at the Palau workshop, August 2008
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