Fund for Animals, Friends of the United Nations Environment 

 Program, and Widecast-Antigua and Barbuda, prepared and 

 transmitted a draft protocol on specially protected areas and 

 wildlife to the contracting parties for consideration in 

 accordance with the resolution mentioned above. 



At the Guadeloupe meeting, the contracting parties noted the 

 draft protocol prepared by non-governmental organizations and 

 agreed that it would be desirable to develop a protocol on 

 specially protected areas and wildlife in the wider Caribbean 

 region. They also agreed that it would be desirable to develop a 

 protocol on land-based sources of pollution. Further, the U.S. 

 delegation called attention to the need to increase awareness of 

 the problem of ship-generated marine debris and the need to amend 

 the existing protocol on oil spill emergencies to include other 

 types of hazardous substances. 



A meeting of experts was held in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin 

 Islands, on 24-26 October 1988 to draft a protocol on specially 

 protected areas and wildlife for consideration at the second 

 meeting of contracting parties held in Mexico City in 1989. 

 Commission efforts to assist in preparing for the St. Croix meeting 

 are described in its previous Annual Report. Although progress was 

 made, the St. Croix meeting did not produce an agreed text. It 

 therefore was agreed that a second meeting of experts should be 

 held in April 1989 to complete a protocol text that could be 

 considered at the October 1989 meeting of contracting parties. 



To assist in preparing for the April 1989 meeting, the 

 coordinator of the Caribbean Environment Program requested that the 

 United States and other Parties to the Cartagena Convention comment 

 on the draft protocol text developed by the October 1988 meeting of 

 experts. Following consultations with the Commission and other 

 interested agencies, the State Department provided comments on the 

 draft text by letter of 14 January 1989. The coordinator of the 

 Caribbean Environment Program subsequently prepared and circulated 

 a revised draft protocol. 



The second meeting of experts, originally scheduled to be held 

 in Kingston, Jamaica, on 10-14 April, was delayed until 19-23 June 

 1989. To assist in preparing for the meeting, the Commission 

 reviewed and, by letter of 26 May 1989, provided comments to the 

 State Department on the revised draft protocol. In its letter, the 

 Commission noted, among other things, that the draft text appeared 

 to give unusual authority to the United Nations Environment 

 Program's Regional Coordinating Unit and that proposed provisions 

 regarding establishment of a scientific and technical advisory 

 committee should be revised to clarify the functions and 

 organization of the advisory committee. 



Comments provided by the Commission, other Federal agencies, 

 and non-governmental organizations were used by the Department of 



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