Persistent Organic Pollutants
Diana Semi and Silafaga Lalua
The Persistent Organic Pollutants POPS project on Funafuti conducted a 2 and a half day workshop on Action Plan Training in the past few days and closed yesterday at the Telecom Building conference room.
The workshop raised awareness of participants who were planners from each island Kaupule and professional people in this field, how to look at the development plans to particularly attract money into the country .
The details of the project are being concerned with toxic chemicals and hazardous waste which Tuvalu has a few issues of, and which Peter Peterson from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research came to Tuvalu to help identify and talk about during the workshop.
These problems, Peterson said, are well known in Tuvalu so they are helping to develop plans to attract money under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants which include some hazardous pesticides.
Tuvalu has signed this convention and Mr. Peterson was here to help look at the action plans that Tuvaluans write, draft and submit to International organizations to get money into Tuvalu to address this particular problem.
Mr. Peterson left the country yesterday and his being in Tuvalu was funded by UNITAR.
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Polotieki a te POPS i Tuvalu
Te polotieki ki luga i vailakau malosi e fui masei ne fai tena akoakoga e lua mo te afa aso tela ne fakaoti i te aso anafi i te fale fai fono o te kamupane telefoni.
Te akoakoga tela ne kau atu ki ei ko sui mai Kaupule o fenua taki tasi mo tino kola e autuu olotou galuega ki te polotieki, ne fakasaga ki luga i te fakamainaga ki te faiga o palani kola e maua mai ei a tupe.
Te polotieki a fakasaga malosi ki luga i vailakau malosi mo kaiga kola e fui fakamasei tela e lasi foki i Tuvalu nei, tela e fakapogai foki ki ei te vau o Peter Peterson mai te fakapotopotoga o feitu tau akoakoga o malo soko o faipati ki ei.
I pati a Peter me i fakalavelave konei e lauiloa i Tuvalu tela la e fesoasoani ki te fakatokaga o palani konei kola ka maua mai ei a tupe, tela e aofia i lalo i te feagaiga ki luga i vailakau malosi tela ne saina i Stockholm.
Tuvalu ko oti ne saina ne ia te feagaiga tenei kae ko Peter ne vau o fesoasoani ki te fakatokaga o palani ke avaka ki fakapotopotoga a te lalolagi ke mafai o maua ne tupe ki loto i Tuvalu mo te fakalavelave tenei.
A Peter ne tiakina ne ia te atufenua i te aso anafi kae ko ia ne togigina mai ne te UNITAR.
