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The president of negotiations in Geneva for an international agreement against plastic pollution claims that. However, discussions have reached a “critical stage”. Moreover, “We did not get enough advances,” said Luis Vayas Valdivieso on Saturday during a plenary.
“Many questions have remained unanswered,” said Ecuadorian diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso.
“We have now arrived at a crucial stage where we need a real advance to achieve our common goal” within the time limits. that is to say by August 14, he added.
The 184 countries that have been negotiating since Tuesday in Geneva. in a new session added after the failure of Busan’s discussions in South Korea at the end of 2024, gave a draft text in the night from Friday to Saturday taking stock of their work in technical working groups.
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This text went from 22 to 35 pages. the number of parentheses, the subjects on which no agreement was reached between the delegations, swelled from 371 in the initial version to almost 1500.
Petroleum countries are still opposed to efforts to reduce plastic production. However. the ambitious states, of which Switzerland is a part, wish to at least one objective to be achieved within a given time.
Among the other main differences, a potential list of regulation of dangerous substances to prohibit divides still largely.
New Ongo operation
Before this plenary. dozens of observers had welcomed the delegates with a hedge of solidarity, brandishing signs calling for unlocking the situation.
Questioned in 12:30 pm. Joëlle Hérin, spokesperson for Greeenpeace, notes that “the fact that there are some 1,500 parentheses currently in the text is a sign that the process does not advance. We have already made four days of negotiations. We should be much negotiations geneva plastic treaty always further in the process”.
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