Notification 2011-196

Communiqué: Hyderabad ready to host the world biodiversity community

Dear Madam/Sir, I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Secretary of the CBD paid a visit to India from 5 to 8 October 2011 to discuss preparations for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP/6) and the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP/11), to be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, from 1 to 19 October 2012. A communiqué issued on this occasion is available on the CBD website at: http://www.cbd.int/press-releases/. Please accept, Madam/Sir, the assurances of my highest consideration.

Executive Secretary

To: All National Focal Points under the Convention and Biosafety Protocol

2011-10-11

Subject(s): Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety