Chairman of the Republican United Nations Plastic Treaty, Luis VAIAS VALDIVESO, is preparing to resign after reports on backstage pressure United Nations Environment program (UNEP).
This step will be declared at the UN meeting on Tuesday, and an official announcement is expected by Thursday. Valas Valdaddadzo confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that he resigned, and said: “Some problems arose in the process.”
In August, global negotiations at the UN headquarters in Geneva were agreed with the contract to accelerate plastic pollution He collapsed After three years of negotiations. There is currently no transaction, and the future of the agreement is unclear.
The sudden resignation of the chair leaves a plastic agreement in an even more uncertain position and raises questions about managing the process.
VAIAS Val Appression was criticized by NGOs and member states at the last stage of negotiations on the release of a text project, which was rejected by most negotiation participants and described The head of the British delegation, Minister Emma Hardy as the “lowest common denominator”. Gana said that the text “will strengthen the status -kVO for decades.”
The section “Plastic production limits” from the previous project were removed, and there were no mention of dangerous chemicals in plastics. The text was also displayed on the solution of plastic pollution in the “full life cycle” from the previous project.
The second text, which was described as slightly better, but was still criticized that it was not ambitious enough, came too late to form an agreement. It was also rejected as the basis for continuing negotiations.
Vaisa Valledzizo said that he resigned for personal and professional reasons. He defended his work, saying that the contract has still “achieved very important goals.” He added that, in his opinion, he was not intended for the first project to be the final version.
While some criticize the leadership of the chairman, fears were also revealed that his work was difficult to UNEP, headed by the Executive Director of ING Andersen. Sources reported Guardian and other That UNEP employee who should be impartial, held a hidden meeting on the last night of negotiations intended in order to persuade members of civil society groups in order to put pressure on the chairman to resign.
“I was at the meeting, and I found that it was very problematic,” said one of those who was present, said Guardian. They added that they only found that the meeting was dedicated to the alleged “dissatisfaction with a chair”, once in the room, and it was uncomfortable to be there.
In a letter seen by the guardian and confirmed by Valdivieros, he filed a request when UNEP asked for information about the collection of “whose focus was the control of the chair” of the process.
He asked UNEP to take “measures to prevent such situations”, and also called for greater transparency in the negotiations in general, saying: “This is a member [state]“Perennial negotiations, and I defended this, and I will defend it until the last day of my chairman.”
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He said that although he was sad, his resignation was also the opportunity to bring “new blood, new initiatives, new ideas for the process.” He added that his decision to resign had nothing to do with what unfolded in negotiations in Geneva.
The Guardian also reported how Petrostates and well -funded plastic industry lobbyers worked to disrupt the deal To reduce plastic production.
Kristina Dixon, head of the Ocean campaign campaign in the agency for the investigation of environmental investigations, described the resignation of Naaas Valdudzo as “a sharp reminder of the dysfunction, which from the very beginning persecuted negotiations under the plastics agreement”. She said that confidence in this process should be urgently restored if there is any hope of achieving a significant result.
The representative of UNEP said: “Despite the fact that UNEP has not been officially informed by the chairman, who he plans to resign, the executive director wants to thank Luis Valdivius for his tireless service as the chairman of the Inc process.” Commenting on the informal meeting, UNEP said that the executive director “did not know about which meeting, until it was brought to our attention. With this issue, it is now being considered in accordance with the rules and rules of the UN. ”
