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SECOND BIENNIAL GEF INTERNATIONAL WATERS CONFERENCE 25-29 Sept. 2002, Furama Hotel, Dalian, China

UNDP is an implementing Agency of the GEF and a partner with the GEF Secretariat, UNEP and the World Bank in organizing this Conference. Therefore, on behalf of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Mr. Mark Malloch Brown, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Second Biennial GEF International Waters Conference which is being held here in the beautiful port city of Dalian. And to introduce myself, I am Frank Pinto and I have two hats: under my first hat I am the Executive Coordinator of UNDP’s GEF programme, and under my second hat I am also the Deputy Leader of UNDP’s Environmentally Sustainable Development Group, both hats being located at United Nations headquarters in New York.

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