CSD-16 - Highlights for Friday, 16 May 2008
CSD-16
Enters Final Day
The
sixteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16)
convened for its final day on Friday, 16 May. In the morning, delegates heard
ministerial statements on "The Way Forward." In the afternoon,
delegates discussed the Chair's Summary - Part II, then considered other
matters, including the provisional agenda for the seventeenth session of the
Commission (CSD-17).
CSD-16 Chair Francis Nhema (Zimbabwe) closed the session at 6:07 pm, and immediately opened the first meeting of the seventeenth session (CSD-17), at which Gerda Verburg (Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands) was elected Chair of CSD-17, and Javad Amin-Mansour (Iran) was elected to the CSD-17 Bureau. CSD-17 Chair Verburg had already left New York, so CSD-16 Chair Nhema declared the meeting closed at 6:13 pm.






