The 1st meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity takes place on 23-27 February 2004 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The agenda and documents for the meeting are available at http://www.biodiv.org/meetings/mop-01/docs.aspx (in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish). As a related item, a special edition of the CBD News, entitled "Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: From negotiation to implementation", on the entry into force of the Protocol, has been published at http://www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/bs-brochure-02-en.pdf. For more information on either of the items, contact [email protected]

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