Seychelles Environment Minister Appointed BRS Executive Secretary
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The Minister for Environment and Energy, Professor Rolph Payet has been appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon as the Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. He will take up the new post in October 2014 in Geneva.
The President will announce a new minister with portfolio for environment and energy at a later date.
President Michel has sent a message of sincere congratulations to Professor Payet, wishing him every success and expressing his full cooperation and support in his tasks and challenges that lie ahead.
"Your appointment to this high office is a well-deserved recognition of your scientific and academic capabilities and crowns a professional life devoted to the environment and to the cause of Small Island Developing States. It also brings immense pride and satisfaction to Seychelles," said the President.
Mr. Michel called the appointment 'a memorable achievement.'
In this new role, Prof. Payet is to manage the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat, contribute to the implementation of the mandates and missions of those three conventions including the formulation of the conventions' overall strategies and policies.
He will also act in an advisory capacity to the UNEP Executive Director and the Presidents and the Bureaus of the conventions as well as their subsidiary bodies.
He will also be responsible for coordinating the preparation of the meetings and implement the substantive work programme of the conventions, including assistance to parties, in particular developing country parties and those with economies in transition.
He will also lead the development of strategies and policies and undertake fund raising and donor reporting, the strategic interagency work of the Secretariat in close coordination with UNEP and other Multilateral Environmental Agreements.
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