Cir#18/72: Seventh Meeting of the Waigani Convention Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC-7)

As agreed to in the Ninth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Waigani Convention (COP-9) held in Apia in September in 2017, I am pleased to advise that the Seventh Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC-7) of the Waigani Convention and the Sixth Meeting of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the joint implementation of the Waigani and Basel Conventions (SCPRC-6) will be held from the 19th–21st February 2019. In addition to these meetings, the Fifth Meeting of the GEF-PAS uPOPs project Steering Committee (GEF-PAS uPOPs-5) together with an evaluation meeting of the Minamata Initial Assessment and the National Implementation Plan projects and a consultation meeting for the ISLANDS proposal under the GEF-7 funding cycle will be held from the 25th February–1st March, 2019. All these meetings will be held in Nadi, Fiji.