As mandated in the resolution on arrangements in the interim period adopted by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury, established pursuant to Governing Council decision 25/5, will meet during the period between the date on which the Convention is opened for signature and the date of the opening of the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention as may be necessary to facilitate the rapid entry into force of the Convention and its effective implementation upon its entry into force.
The sixth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee on mercury (INC6) is scheduled to take place from 3 to 7 November 2014 at the premises of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand. The session will be preceded by regional consultations on 2 November 2014.
A series of meeting documents have been prepared for the session which can be downloaded here.
Practical information for participants, including on accommodation near the meeting venue can be found here.
The week prior from 30 October to 1 November 2014, also in Bangkok, a meeting of the Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group as well as a half day orientation session on 'Principles of Effective Partnership' will be organized.
Further information about the Global Mercury Partnernship can be found here: https://www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Mercury/GlobalMercuryPartnership/tabid/1253/Default.aspx