A communication has been received that Ecuador, a Party to the Agreement, has appointed a new National Contact Point.

He is Daniel Ortega, from the Environment and Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (contact at Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.).

The ACAP Secretariat welcomes Daniel Ortega to this position and looks forward to working with him when the Sixth Advisory Committee convenes in Guayaquil, Ecuador from 29 August to 2 September this year (click here).

The Secretariat offers its grateful thanks to Ecuador's outgoing National Contact Point, Federico Meneses.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 January 2011