Solomon Islands delegation brief to the Sixth Working Group on Biosafety and the First Extraordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 14-23 February 1999, Cartegena, Colombia

Contents: 1. SPREP Briefing paper for COP4. 2. Draft negotiating text for BSWG 6. 3. Note from the Secretariat - Cluster analysis for BSWG. 4. Note from the Secretariat - Development of a Legally Binding Instrument. 5. Note from the Secretariat - Report: meeting of the Extended Bureau of the Open Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety Montreal 21-22 October 1998. 6. Note from the Secretariat - Overview and annotated draft negotiating text of the Protocol. 7. Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety. 8. Report of the Sixth Meeting of the BSWG. 9. Agreed text of a Protocol on Biosafety. 10. Proposed Interim Arrangements for the Intergovernmental Committee of the Protocol on Biosafety