Disclosing this at a press conference in Hyderabad on Monday, India's Minister for Environment & Forests Jairam Ramesh said the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) was chosen as the venue of the conference due to superior conference facilities than the national capital New Delhi.
The conference along with the '6th meeting of the conference of the parties serving as the meeting of the parties to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety' would be held during the same period. It is a subsidiary agreement to the convention. It seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology. To date, 159 countries plus the European Union have ratified the Cartagena Protocol.
Ramesh said 8,000 to 10,000 participants, including officials from international organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, were expected to attend the event to discuss issues relating to bio-diversity and bio-safety. Read the full report here.
Source: RTT News.
