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Acknowledgements............................................................................ 3
Foreword by Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General, WMO and
Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General, UNESCO................................. 4
Preface by Alexander Bedritsky, President of WMO............................ 5
A special message from Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General
of the United Nations...................................................................... 12
Statement by Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland............. 13
Statement by Dr Danilo Türk, President of the
Republic of Slovenia......................................................................... 14
Statement by Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Federal Republic
of Germany......................................................................................15
Statement by José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President
of the Government of Spain............................................................. 16
Statement by Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister, Denmark....... 17
Statement by Moritz Leuenberger, Minister of the Environment,
Transport, Energy and Communications and former President
of the Swiss Confederation............................................................... 18
Statement by Andreas Carlgren, Minister of the Environment,
Sweden............................................................................................19
Statement by Dr Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator..................... 20
Statement by Ricardo Lagos, Former President of Chile,
UN Special Envoy for Climate Change............................................. 21
Statement by Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary General,
International Telecommunication Union.......................................... 22
Statement by Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General a.i.,
World Tourism Organization........................................................... 23
Statement by Margareta Wahlstrom, Assistant Secretary-General for
Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction........................................................................... 24
Statement by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and
Executive Director, UN Environment Programme............................ 25
Statement by Anna K Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General and
Executive Director, UN-HABITAT.................................................... 26
Statement by Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for
Science and Research....................................................................... 27
Statement by Bekele Geleta, Secretary General of International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies......................... 28
Statement by Edwin Carrington, Secretary General, CARICOM........ 29
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