After two years of talks and a final week of negotiations, the countries have been unable to create the international treaty against plastic waste to which they committed in March 2022. “More time is needed,” said the director of the International Committee Negotiator, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, this Sunday in Busan (South Korea).
The latest draft text for the legally binding treaty is still full of options, alternatives and omissions that have led Vayas Valdieso to call it “a basis for future negotiations” but, at the same time, “open to modifications” at any time. “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,” concluded the director of the INC.
The mandate of the countries was to agree to this treaty once the same states voted in favor of addressing the marine litter that “drowns the world” in March 2022. The commitment will have to wait for a new and extra session of meetings.
The researcher at the University of Cádiz, Carmen Morales Caselles, from the South Korean city, tells elDiario.es that “the director’s latest document is progress, but it has the task of agreeing on issues that are not reflected as would be desirable to become really ambitious.”
Once Vayas Valdivieso has expressed that what has been done so far was not going to be enough to finalize the treaty and that a next summit should be called, a battery of interventions took place in the plenary session. Uganda, for example, has criticized the fact that its visions have been made to disappear and Saudi Arabia has insisted that nothing has been decided even though there are no open options at any point in the draft.
The Rwandan delegation, in its speech, asked the general assembly to stand up those who really want an ambitious agreement against marine litter: there was a long applause in the plenary hall, but, for the moment, the treaty does not has arrived.
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