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39th Annual Session Download as iCal file
From Saturday, 16 October 2010 -  12:00am
To Friday, 22 October 2010 - 11:59pm
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Hosted by the Government of Australia

The SOPAC Annual Session is a meeting of the Secretariat Governing Council and has four components:

  • A Plenary Session covers the procedural aspects of the meeting and the presentation of reports from member countries, donor Governments and organisations, and the Secretariat. This session is a meeting of the Council at which other delegates are invited as observers, contributing to the discussion of non-technical matters concerning SOPAC such as cooperation and funding.
  • A meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to consider the SOPAC Work Program. All TAG members participate as equals during this meeting.
  • A meeting of the Science Technology and Resources Network STAR which is an open forum for reporting geoscientific research in the South Pacific and for exchanging information and ideas between scientists from SOPAC Member Countries and the international geoscientific community.
  • A Governing Council meeting to discuss the administrative and financial business of SOPAC, which may be both closed and/or open to observers.

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Newsflash

Koror, Thursday, July 22, 2010: “I’m not an expert, but I know that without water no one can survive. Even when scientists look for life on Mars the first thing they look for is water.” With these words Palau’s President, His Excellency Johnson Toribiong, opened a regional meeting on water management currently being held in Palau. He reminded delegates from 13 Pacific island countries that water is one resource that no one can take for granted.

“The availability of freshwater is important to the quality of life, and I will go further, it is critical to the economic development of every country,” Mr Toribiong said. “So I urge all of you to take this conference as a serious collective effort by all of us in the Pacific region to address these important challenges.”