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SOM IN MALAYSIA TO DISCUSS CTI SECRETARIAT
Jakarta, Sept 28 (ANTARA) - Senior officials from six countries will meet in Kinabalu, Malaysia, to discuss a host country for the permanent secretariat of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) in late October, 2009, an Indonesian official said.
"The senior officials will meet on October 20 to 22 in Kinabalu. One of the agenda items that would be discussed is the location of the CTI secretariat," Director for Spatial Planning, Marine, Coast and Small Island affairs of the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry, M Eko Rudianto, said here on Monday.
The senior officials' meeting is a follow up of the SOM of CTI held in Manado, North Sulawesi, in May this year.
The Kinabalu meeting is also expected to discuss CTI coordination mechanism at regional level.
"The CTI secretariat in Indonesia is still temporary in nature. The official and permanent secretariat has yet to be determined officially, but Indonesia is a strong candidate to host the permanent secretariat. We hope the Kinabalu meeting would agree to it," he said.
Besides a CTI secretariat, the SOM meeting in Malaysia will also discuss input that the CTI would take to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"The meeting will also plan its 2010 working programs," Rudianto said, adding that the SOM would prepare materials for discussion at a ministerial meeting in the Solomon Islands in the third week of November 2009.
The six countries grouped in the CTI are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste.***3***
"The senior officials will meet on October 20 to 22 in Kinabalu. One of the agenda items that would be discussed is the location of the CTI secretariat," Director for Spatial Planning, Marine, Coast and Small Island affairs of the Maritime and Fisheries Ministry, M Eko Rudianto, said here on Monday.
The senior officials' meeting is a follow up of the SOM of CTI held in Manado, North Sulawesi, in May this year.
The Kinabalu meeting is also expected to discuss CTI coordination mechanism at regional level.
"The CTI secretariat in Indonesia is still temporary in nature. The official and permanent secretariat has yet to be determined officially, but Indonesia is a strong candidate to host the permanent secretariat. We hope the Kinabalu meeting would agree to it," he said.
Besides a CTI secretariat, the SOM meeting in Malaysia will also discuss input that the CTI would take to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"The meeting will also plan its 2010 working programs," Rudianto said, adding that the SOM would prepare materials for discussion at a ministerial meeting in the Solomon Islands in the third week of November 2009.
The six countries grouped in the CTI are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste.***3***
