UNEP, China Sign Agreement on Establishment of Beijing Office

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UNEP, China Sign Agreement on Establishment of Beijing Office

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The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the People's Republic of China on Thursday signed an agreement in Nairobi, the headquarters of the UNEP, on the establishment of a UNEP office in Beijing.

Chinese Permanent Representative to UNEP and Chinese Ambassador to Kenya Guo Chongli and UNEP Executive Director Klause Topfer, jointly signed the agreement, which marks the operation of the Beijing Office.

The establishment of the office is a concrete measure taken by the UNEP secretariat to further implement the World Summit on Sustainable Development's outcomes and relevant UNEP Governing Council's decisions on strengthening regionalization, UNEP's role in the Global Environmental Facility and its role in capacity delivery at both of country and subregional level, according to the agreement.

Guo said at the signing ceremony that "China is a large developing environment state with enormous population. We always hold that doing good job in China's environment and ecosystem in benign condition is the important contribution to the global environmental protection."

"The establishment of Beijing Office will play an active and effective role in promoting China's environmental protection work,strengthening the bilateral cooperation between China and the UNEP,and facilitating the UNEP's work in China and the Northeast Asia sub-region," Guo added.

Topfer said on the same occasion that the UNEP has been continuously paying great attention and rendering concrete support to China's environmental protection.

The establishment of Beijing Office "is not just a start, it isa very important step" to promote the cooperation between the UNEP and China, Topfer said.

Setting up in 1973, the UNEP is aimed at encouraging and coordinating sound environmental practices, raising environmental awareness as well as promoting major environmental treaties in theworld.

So far, the UN body has only established its offices in two countries, Russia and China.

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