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KUWAIT, Feb 8 (KUNA) -- A consultative meeting on developments of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) kicked off on Monday at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) to promote regional action and set a deadline to carry out projects in the region of West Asia.
Addressing the meeting, Dr. Faiza Al-Yamani, acting director general of KISR and executive director of Environment & Life Sciences Research Center, said the meeting aims to present available scientific capabilities at the institute to take advantage of them.
The meeting also seeks to share expertise and consultations with participating countries like Egypt, Algeria and Jordan to benefit from their experiences in the area of the implementation of requirements of POPs, she added.
She noted that the meeting works on setting suitable frameworks to help member states meet their commitments to the convention.
Despite serious efforts exerted by some parties in the West Asia towards implementing the convention, some countries still suffer from the lack of capabilities to collect required data to evaluation and surveillance of POPs and their levels in different environmental atmospheres, she stressed.
The institute over the last five decades has been contributing to supporting Kuwait's environment sector through carrying out varied activities, she said.
Meanwhile, Abdel-Nabi Al-Ghadhban, a researcher, said POPs are organic compounds containing carbon with chemical and natural properties which combat moldiness.
Considered as another milestone in combating the adverse impacts of organic pollutants, the convention calls for government commitment to take measures to eliminate or reduce the releases of these chemicals into the environment.
Nations are obliged to establish national mechanisms to formulate and implement their own blueprint of actions for a sustainable healthy environment. (end)
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