Cuban experts attend meeting on chemicals

HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 16 (ACN) A delegation of Cuban experts is in Geneva to attend until Friday three international meetings on chemicals, hazardous wastes and their disposal.

The group is made up of MSc. Jorge Alvarez Alvarez, director of the Office of Environmental Regulation and Safety; Dr. Odalys Goicochea Cardoso, director general of Environment of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), and Ulises Fernández Gómez,
director of International Relations of CITMA, who will advocate concerns of interest to developing nations, particularly those of the Small Island States, and the design of new provisions in the agreements to foster technology transfer and technical and financial assistance.

The experts will present a Project for the Safe Management of Chemical Products and Hazardous Wastes as part of the Natural Resources and Environment Macro-program endorsed by the Executive Committee of the Cuban Council of Ministers and will discuss issues related to the new Act of Natural Resources and Environment System, approved by the National Assembly of People's Power.

The agenda includes the 15th Conference of the States Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, and the 10th Meeting of the States Parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.