Meetings of the ISA Council
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The first part of the 27th Session of the Council opened in Kingston, Jamaica, on 21 March 2022. The meetings of the Council will last ten days, from 21 March to 1 April, and will focus on the draft regulations for deep-seabed mineral resources exploitation.
All 36 Council members are in attendance, either in-person or through video link. In addition, fifteen delegations of observers are also following the discussions.
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On its first day of the meeting, the Council adopted decisions on:
- the election of Mr. Tomasz Abramowksi of Poland as the President of the Council for the 27th Session
- the election of the following country representatives as Vice Presidents for each regional group: Canada (Western European and others Group), Jamaica (Group of Latin American and the Caribbean States), Sierra Leone (African Group) and Korea (Asia and the Pacific Group).
Council members also discussed the report of the Chair of the Legal and Technical Commission (LTC), Mr. Harald Brekke (Norway), on the phase-one draft standards and guidelines developed by the LTC during 2020 and 2021 to supplement the regulations.
The open-ended working group on the financial terms of contracts, established by the Council in July 2018 to discuss a financial model and payment mechanism for deep-sea mining and chaired by Mr. Olav Myklebust (Norway), resumed its discussions in the form of its fourth in-person meeting.
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H.E. Mr. Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General, greets the delegates.
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Left to right: Mr. Alfonso Ascencio-Herrera, ISA Legal Counsel and Deputy to the Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General, H.E. Ms. Alison Stone Roofe (Jamaica), acting President of the 26th session of the ISA Council, Dr. Gwenaelle Le Gurun, ISA.
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H.E. Mr. Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General
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Mr. Coy Roache (Jamaica) speaks to H.E. Mr. Michael Lodge, ISA Secretary-General
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H.E. Ms. Alison Stone Roofe (Jamaica), acting President of the 26th session of the ISA Council and Dr. Gwenaelle Le Gurun, ISA
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Mr. Tomasz Abramowski (Poland), President of the 27th session of the Council
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Mr. Harald Brekke (Norway), Chair of the LTC
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H.E. Ms. Georgina Guillén Grillo (Costa Rica)
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Mr. Md Arafat Rahman (Bangladesh)
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H.E. Mr. Alhaji Fanday Turay (Sierra Leone)
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H.E. Mr. Hugo Verbist (Belgium)
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Ms. Lucía Scheinkman (Argentina)
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Mr. Gavin Watson (United Kingdom)
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H.E. Ms. Elza Moreira Marcelino de Castro (Brazil)
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Mr. Clemens Wackernagel (Germany)
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Ms. Khalilah Hackman (Ghana)
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H.E. Mr. Olivier Guyonvarch (France)
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Mr. Bartosz Jasiński (Poland)
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Ms. Robyn Frost (left) (Australia) and Dr. Marie Bourrel-McKinnon (right) (ISA)
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Ms. Laura Cameron (left) and Ms. Robyn Frost (right) (Australia)
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Ms. Kayama Mitsuru (Japan)
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Left to right: Mr. Miguel Balaguer (Dominican Republic), H.E. Ambassador Edward Pérez Reyes (Dominican Republic) and Joost Depaepe (Belgium)
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Mr. Bartosz Jasiński and Ms. Agata Kozłowska-Roman (right) (Poland) with Mr. Carlos Pascual García (left) (Spain)
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