Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic will attend the Ministerial Breakfast Briefing on the Nagoya Protocol, on the fringes of the 66th UN General Assembly, to be held from 19 to 23 September at the UN New York headquarters.
The Ministry says in a statement that the meeting will also look at the International Treaty on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and that Minister Dulic will also hold a series of meetings with his counterparts from other countries.
After six years of negotiations, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted on 29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, at the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Protocol has been signed by 41 members and Serbia will ratify it on 20 September, at the UN headquarters in New York.
This document advances the approach and profit distribution of genetic resources and secures greater legal security of services providers and beneficiaries.
Every member will take legal, administrative or political measures to make sure that the gains from genetic resources are divided equally with the autochthonous communities from which they originated.