| | |  Editorials | Environmental | February 2009 
Mexico Confirms Commitment to Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
 Presidencia de la República
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| | The meeting seeks to draw up an international legal framework on responsibility and compensation for the damage that may be caused to biological diversity in the transborder movement of genetically modified organisms | |
The First Meeting of Group of Friends of Joint Presidents on Responsibility and Compensation was held at SRE within the framework of Cartagena Protocol on Biotechnology Security from February 23 to 27 2008.
The Cartagena Protocol on Biotechnology Security is the international treaty derived from the Convention on Biological Diversity, the aim of which is to help guarantee an adequate level of protection within the sphere of the safe transfer, manipulation and use of live genetically modified organisms, which may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and its risks for human health, focusing specifically on the transborder movements of these organizations.
The meeting seeks to draw up an international legal framework on responsibility and compensation for the damage that may be caused to biological diversity in the transborder movement of genetically modified organisms, bearing in mind the possible risks for human health.
The event was attended by nearly 150 delegates from various countries as well as national and international observers and was inaugurated by Ambassador Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo Verduzco, Under-Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat and Sandra Denise Herrera Flores, Under-Secretary of Public Works and Environmental Regulations of the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources.
The SRE collaborated closely with the organization of this international meeting, with the Inter-Secretarial Commission of Biosecurity and Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM), comprising the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock Raising, Rural Development and Fishing, which presides over this commission, as well as the Secretariats of the Environment and Natural Resources, Health, the Economy, Public Education, Finance and Public Credit and the National Council of Science and Technology.
Mexico, one of the countries with the greatest biodiversity in the world, offered to host this important international meeting on the environment and biotechnology. This confirms its commitment to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, as a Member Country of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biotechnology Security. |
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