PRRI MOP7 Malfermanta #Komunika?o
Dankoni vin Prezidento,
Mi parolas en la nomo de la Publika Esploro kaj Reguliga Iniciato, PRRI.
PRRI is a worldwide organisation of public researchers involved in biotechnology for the common good.
We congratulate you with your election as MOP Chair and we thank the Government and people of Korea for their warm hospitality.
S-ro. Prezidento, PRRI has always been a great supporter of the idea behind the Biosafety Protocol as it is laid down in its mother treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Artikolo 16 of the Convention underlines that transfer of technology, whereby biotechnologies are explicitly mentioned, is essential to the attainment of the goals of the Convention.
Artikolo 19 of the Convention instructs that the Parties shall promote priority access to the benefits arising from biotechnologies, especially for developing countries.
To facilitate such technology transfer, the third paragraph of article 19 instructs the Parties to consider he need for a protocol. #?I tiu instruo rezultis je 2000 in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
The Biosafety Protocol reflects this background in its Preamble, which states that modern biotechnology has great potential for human well-being if developed and used with adequate safety measures.
S-ro. Prezidento, we believe that the Biosafety Protocol can indeed contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity through facilitation of responsible technology transfer.
PRRI is here to actively contribute to the discussions as to how the Protocol can be strengthened to facilitate responsible technology transfer.
To this end, PRRI held a side event on the first day in which we illustrated the importance of modern biotechnology, Dividita spertojn sur GMaj #kultiva?o evoluigita de la publika esplora sektoro, Tiel kiel kelkaj de la defioj, Kiel #miskompreni?o – Kaj efektive misrepresentations – De faktoj #?irka?igi biotechnology kaj biosafety. La prezentoj de tiu flanka evento estas havebla sur la PRIa retejo.
Dankoni vin s-ro. Prezidento