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The Waigani and Basel Conventions are key frameworks to promote regional and global cooperation in the field of environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes. In becoming Parties, countries have committed themselves to effectively protect their population and their environment from the adverse effects of hazardous wastes and to help each other to solve problems arising in the environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes.

The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), under its Pacific Ocean Pollution Prevention Programme (PACPOL) formulated a Regional Strategy to address the issues related to World War II wrecks in the Pacific. This CD-Rom contains all the relevant regional and country by country level information relating to World War II wrecks in the Pacific.

This Annual Report notes the major achievements of SPREP in supporting Pacific island countries and territories to address issues relating to: biodiversity and ecosystem management, waste management and pollution and environmental monitoring and governance