22 SEPTEMBER 2017
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ulu Bismarck Crawley, is the new Chairman of the Noumea Convention.
Ulu takes over from outgoing chair, Mike Walsh.
The decision was made last week during the 14th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (C.O.P) to the Noumea Convention, for which S.P.R.E.P is the Secretariat. The meeting was part of the build up to S.P.R.E.P’s 28th Meeting of Officials, which opened last night.
Source: Samoa Observer