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Regional awareness-raising workshop on mercury pollution - a global problem that needs to be addressed

Beirut, Lebanon, 
11-14 October 2004



UNEP Chemicals, together with the UNEP Regional Office for West Asia and the Ministry of Environment of Lebanon, organized a regional awareness raising workshop on mercury pollution for West Asian countries in Beirut, Lebanon, from 11 to 14 October 2004. 

 The workshop was attended by 16 countries in the region (two representatives from each country), in addition to a number of invited resource persons from Denmark, Finland and Sweden, IGOs (such as the Arab League of Nations) and NGOs (such as the Friends of Environment Society/Jordanian Network for Environmentally Friendly Industries).

The proceedings of the workshop (see below) contain the presentation slides or summary of the presentation given by each speaker in plenary during the various sessions of the programme. For more information on the various presentations given, please contact the speaker directly, using the contact information given in the list of participants below.  Should you want a hardcopy of the proceedings, please contact UNEP Chemicals.