Participants at the CTO Partners Dialogue
Sunday, August 9, 2009
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Freddy Numberi, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesia chaired the CTO Partners Dialogue together with Co-Chair Lawrence Greenwood Jr., Asian Development Bank
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Military police escort
Our fearless ENB Team leader consulting with the security forces on the current situation at the summit
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CTI Member Heads of State sign a stone inscription to commemorate the first CTI summit
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The summit meeting arranged with CTI member Heads of State seated among other summit participants
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, delivered the welcoming speech
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Philippines, spoke about the important role of CTI in protecting the marine environment.
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Participants waiting for the summit to begin
Coral Triangle Initiative member Heads of State (left to right): Derek Sikua, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands; José Manuel Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor; Susilo Bambung Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia; Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines;Sir Michael Thomas Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; and Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia
World Ocean Conference Photos
n Friday, 15 May 2009, participants gathered for the final day of the 2009 World Ocean Conference in Manado, Indonesia. In the morning, leaders of the six countries participating in the Coral Triangle Initiative (Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and East Timor) met to confirm their commitment to the Initiative and make announcements related to funding. In the afternoon, CTI partners met to discuss: next steps following WOC2009; determining the immediate implementation priorities for the CTI; and achieving effective and well-coordinated CTI partnerships.
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The World Ocean Conference (WOC) is currently taking place this week in Madado Indonesia and Secretary Clinton offered these remarks in recognition of the important work being done:
Here is some background on the WOC from their website:
2009 World Ocean Conference
The oceans play major roles in determining the world climate system, but increasing rate of global climate change in recent times has threatened marine lives and the livelihood of the people.
The latest legal framework that constitutes and governs the use if the ocean, The Convention on the Law of the Sea, (UNCLOS) 1982 is now 27 years. The climate system and the pressure to the world’s oceans have dramatically changed since. In addition the law did not really address the ways in which governments manage maritime affaires related to the impacts of global climate change on the oceans, or indeed the role of the oceans in the phenomena of global climate change.
The world has at least experienced a number of economic recessions and crises since 1982. The Asia Financial crisis in 1997 and global recession today have caused major upsets to the ocean. Over fishing and in manners that destruct the ecosystem of the ocean, pollutions and coastal degradation have terribly impacted the balance of marine ecosystem. The recent global recession will threaten the oceans as well because poverty and unemployment will turn global populations to seek means of subsistence from the oceans.
To address these threats, Indonesia has taken the initiative to organize a World Ocean Conference (WOC) in Manado on the 11th – 15th May 2009, hereafter referred to as WOC2009, which will be attended by Ministers and High Level Government Officials and High Level Officials from Multilateral Organizations.
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