ON SITE IN JOHANNESBURG:
THE OFFICIAL UN SUMMIT
Official UN summit
Date: August 26 to September 4
Venue: Sandton Convention Centre, Sandton, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Web: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org
The official UN summit, where delegations and governments met to deliberate
on the poltical declaration, the
plan of implementation and the partnerhip
agreements; the official summit ran from August 26 to September 4.
The official summit comprised several scenes: The plenary was the official
heart of the summit. Important events took place here, although informal
meeting had a lot of influence on the outcomes of the summit as well.
Between the plenaries, the countries held their delegation meetings to
discuss development and possible strategies. Regional groupings such as
the European Union, G77/China
(developing countries) and others will also had daily co-ordination meetings.
Over lunchtime and in the evening, various side events took place, organised
by intergovernmental organisations and the Major
Groups, focusing on specific issues related to the Summit. NGOs had
caucus-meetings by theme, geography or criteria such as women, indigenous
peoples etc. The most important NGO meeting was the daily NGO Morning
Strategy Session organised by the Sustainable
Development Issues Network.
The programme of the UN summit started with informal meetings as early
as August 24, and an opening event took place August 25 (in
the Ubuntu Village). Partnership
Events took place in the plenary hall during August 26-28 and informal
negotiations on the Draft Plan of Implementation
and the Political Declaration in
other rooms. August 29-30 were reserved for plenaries with the possibility
for NGO interventions. September 2-4 saw the ministerial level debate
in the plenary (with heads of state or heads of delegations reading out
statements), with a multi stakeholder event
on September 4, followed by a wrapping up session.
Read here, what the results of the
summit looked like.
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