Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Algeria receives the certificate for 16 new Ramsar sites to be from Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, Mr Peter Bridgewater. Standing in the back are MedWet Coordinator Mr Spyros Kouvelis together with an Algerian authority representative.

        
L-R Deputy Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention, Mr Nick Davidson; Mr Abdelghani Beloued, Ministry of Agriculture, Algeria

              
L-R Minister of Agriculture of Algeria, Mr Said Barkat; MedWet Coordinator Mr Spyros Kouvelis and Ramsar Secretary General

         
The Plenary hall on the morning of the second day. Clockwise and facing the panel are honorary members of the Committee, next to them are country delegates, followed by intergovernmental organisations, MedWet Team wetland centers, non-governmental-organisations, MedWet Network and project representatives and international observers.

                
L-R Honorary members of the Committee Mr Papayannis and Mr Hoffmann in the morning session of the second day of the Meeting


L-R Delegates of Bulgaria, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya;


L-R Representatives of BirdLife International, BirdLife Spain, MedWet NGOs Network, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale della Toscana, BirdLife Spain

        
L-R Mr Chedly Rais, representing the FAO/MedWet project on Agriculture Water and Wetlands; representative of SEHUMED, Ms Gonzales and standing is SEHUMED Project Codirector Prof Blasco, next to her from the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat is Mr Vives
         
 L-R Director of EKBY, Ms Alexandridou ; President of the Permanent Committee of the Ramsar Convention Ms Gordana Beltram               

       
     L-R Delegate of Tunisia ; Delegates of Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece

                
L-R Delegates of Spain, FYR Macedonia; Delegates of Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Portugal; Delegate of Turkey, representative of UNEP MAP RAC/SPA, representative of UNDP

               
L-R Director General of the Biological Station of Tour Du Valat; MedWet Coordination Unit Policy Advisor, Mr Benessaiah

        
The WWF Team from WWF International, Mediterranean Programme and Tunis Office

                

 

         
L-R Some of the members of the administrative support and communications team who worked for this Meeting. More persons actually contributed towards this Meeting - our thanks to all of them.