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UN Meeting on the Use of Living Modified Organisms opens on Monday

Meeting on the Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms
- First of three major United Nations meetings opens Monday
Pyeongchang/Montreal, 26 September 2014 – On Monday, delegates from around the world will convene for the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP MOP 7). The meeting will discuss and adopt further decisions to contribute to ensuring the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology and consider the issue of integrating biosafety into other relevant national initiatives to enhance further implementation. The Cartagena Protocol, an additional agreement to the Convention on Biodiversity, entered into force on 11 September 2003. To date, 168 countries are Parties to the Protocol. The Supplementary Protocol, an additional agreement to the Cartagena Protocol, was adopted in Nagoya, Japan in 2010. To date, 26 countries are Parties to the Supplementary Protocol. It will enter into force 90 days after 40 Parties have acceded or ratified it. The latest country to accede to the Cartagena Protocol and the Supplementary Protocol is the United Arab Emirates on 12 September 2014.

• Communiqué: Meeting on the Safe Use of Living Modified Organisms
• Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Cartagena Protocol COP-MOP 7
• Pyeongchang to host biodiversity conference
• U.N. biodiversity meeting to open Monday in S. Korea
• Event: Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety COP-MOP 7 - Biodiversity Policy & Practice
• CBD COP-MOP 7 | IISD RS | 29 September - 3 October 2014 | Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea