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Regional
awareness-raising
workshops on 
mercury pollution

The workshops took place as follows:

• Asia:  Bangkok, Thailand, 26-29 April 2004

• Anglophone Africa:  Pretoria, South Africa, 1-4 June 2004

• CIS-countries: Kiev, Ukraine, 20-23 July 2004

• Spanish-speaking America: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13-16 September 2004

• West and Central Asia:  Beirut, Lebanon, 11-14 October 2004

• Francophone Africa:  Dakar, Senegal, 22-25 November 2004 

• Caribbean:  Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 18-21 January 2005

The purpose of the workshops were to:

• Raise awareness of the global, regional and local nature of mercury pollution problems and assist countries to identify and prioritize mercury issues within their borders and within their region;

• Raise awareness of the potential options to reduce exposures, uses, and releases of mercury;

• Promote action, both immediate and long-term, at both national, regional and global levels to protect human health and the environment from mercury releases (in line with UNEP GC decision 22/4 V);

• Promote the exchange of information on problems and solutions;

• Prepare countries for future discussions of further measures for addressing the significant global adverse impacts of mercury (in line with UNEP GC decision 22/4 V).

A CD-rom containing the proceedings and all the presentations made at each workshop is available upon request from UNEP Chemicals.