New York, Sept. 26 (BNA): Chief Executive Officer of the Supreme Council for Environment Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina has participated in the high-level meeting held at the UN headquarters on “Minamata Convention on Mercury”, a global convention aiming to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury.
The objective of the event is to get more countries to deposit their instruments of acceptance, approval, or accession to the Convention.
Samoa Prime Minister and Chadian Environment and Fisheries Minister took part in the high-level event co-hosted by Japan, Switzerland, the US and Uruguay and moderated by the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Ibrahim Thiaw.
The Convention, negotiated under the United Nations Environment Programme calls for parties to control and reduce mercury emissions to the air, reduce or eliminate the use of mercury in certain products and industrial processes, address the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining and reduce the supply of mercury by, among other things, ending primary mercury mining.
It was agreed at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in Geneva, Switzerland on January 19, 2013.

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BNA 1355 GMT 2015/09/26