﻿ Ramsar Convention - Standing Committee  35th Meeting of the
Ramsar Standing Committee    35th Meeting of the Standing
Committee Gland, Switzerland, 14-16 February 2007  Agenda item 7
Theme of COP10  Background document to assist in the discussion
of point 2 in the agenda of the Subgroup on COP10, submitted by
the Republic of Korea.  1. The Republic of Korea was selected as
the host country of the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the
Contracting Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Wetlands at
COP9 held in Kampala, Uganda, in November 2005. This document
describes our consideration of possible themes so far, and
presents three candidate themes for discussion by the subgroup,
with a view to selecting one for consideration by Standing
Committee 35.  2. Fully recognizing the importance of selecting
themes which would reflect not only international trends on
wetland conservation, but also the major interests of both Asian
countries and Korea, we reviewed the agenda items discussed at
the previous COPs and othe