Report of the First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Waigani Convention, 20 July, 2002, Majuro, Marshall Islands

Abstract

The First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within the South Pacific Region (Waigani Convention) was convened in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands on 20 July, 2002. All States and Territories Members to SPREP including the Parties to the Convention were invited at the Meeting together with the CROP Organisations, Collaborating Organisations, including the Secretariat of the Basel Convention and other Institutional Focal Points.