You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
The Plenaries
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After two days of subgroups and regional meetings and an excursion, we're ready for three days of plenary sessions, and I'm going on duty now.
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We begin with addresses by Georgian governors and environment ministers and a men's chorus with traditional Georgian songs, or laments, or tuneful pleas.
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After the traditional songs, the delegations are settling in -- a very long day, with some fairly contentious issues, but all in good fun.
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The children's wetland painting contest has been displayed in the hotel lobby all week, and now it's time for the winners.
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The winners get interviews on national TV.
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Dwight gets to watch from overhead -- buckling in to write up the first day's report overnight whilst my colleagues bus off to the reception in Batumi offered by the Ministry of Environment and Transport.
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Our Spartan quarters, not too far from the mini-bar, until the first day's plenary report is ready for circulation to the Parties in the morning.
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Whilst Kristin and my colleague Mireille chow down on Georgian cuisine in Batumi
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Day Two dawns earlier than usual, with more contentious issues and a great lot of the usual blah-blah, very necessary to international conservation progress however crushingly boring it may be.
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Luckily, Mr Kim of South Korea, the Chair of the Standing Committee, is a born diplomat and keeps feathers mostly unruffled.
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Sybille from Switzerland, host country of our Secretariat, is pressing a point, and Olivier is contemplating it.
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The "CEPA Experts", some of them anyway, with my colleague Sandra (centre).
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A pause in the plenary session as Anada, the Secretary General, welcomes a new Ramsar site from Michael Honeth from the Marshall Islands.
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My colleague Montse, who keeps the delegations supplied with more documents than they can keep up with.
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Another all-nighter in the back rooms, with an awkward still-life painting presented as a gift to the Secretary General. Everybody's off tonight in Batumi again for a dinner offered by the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.
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The third plenary day, perhaps the most contentious of the lot, with the Chair (right) rising above it, the Deputy Secretary General (centre) drafting a riposte, and me (left) annoyed.
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Breaking up now, planning future contacts, everything is forgiven. The meeting paused under Any Other Business to present me with a retirement gift of a nice mountain painting and a basket of Georgian beer (which got us through the next night of the plenary reports).
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A group photo of the Asia and Oceania regions
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The Secretary General on telly
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Group photo
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And now, in an hour or so, we're out of here, headed for Istanbul. My overnights report of the meeting is here, not for the faint-hearted.
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Back to Batumi airport, and thence to Turkey again.
Some of the photos on this page were taken by the Georgian government photographer for our use.