Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.

UNESCO: Global Deal to Protect Nature

The election took place during the 18th General Assembly of State Parties to the World Heritage Convention held at the Unesco headquarters in Paris on Monday, November 7, 2011.

UNESCO: Malaysia Elected to UNESCO World Heritage Committee

The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Pacific state parties to the 2003 ICH Convention as well as Cook Islands experts including representative of the House of Ariki (traditional chiefs), officers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of education, representative of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and other civil society organisations.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN APIA