Second Meeting of the Parties
25-27 May 2005, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Welcome
Message
from Mr. Kofi A. Annan, former Secretary-General
of the United Nations
(1997-2006)
Opening
remarks by Mrs Brigita Schmögnerová, former
UNECE
Executive Secretary (2002-2005)
The
second meeting of the Parties to the UNECE Convention
on
Access to Information, Public Participation in
Decision-making
and Access to Justice in Environmental
Matters – the Aarhus Convention - was organized
at the kind invitation of Ms. Aitkul
Samakova, Minister
of Environmental Protection of Kazakhstan,
on behalf
of the Government of Kazakhstan. The meeting took
place in Almaty on 25-27 May 2005.
The
meeting was an important milestone in the evolution
of the
Aarhus process, providing an opportunity
both to review the
progress achieved in the Convention’s
implementation and to
reflect on and plan for the
challenges that lie ahead - see highlights.
The
Ministerial segment of the meeting took place on
Friday
27
May 2005, and culminated in the adoption
of the Almaty
Declaration (English
French
Russian).
All
documents may be accessed through this website. They
include documents and decisions adopted by the meeting,
background documents prepared
in
advance for the meeting
and relevant intersessional
documents.
For
the list of participants of the meeting, please click here.