United States, Aug. 28 -- Palau's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Olai Uludong is one of the facilitators of the four informal working groups negotiating the high seas treaty underway in New York.
She is the only Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) diplomat leading the discussion in the informal working group on capacity building and marine technology transfer (CB&TT).
This week Ambassador Uludong is presiding over discussion to try and reach consensus on issues that include a potential list of activities in the new High Seas agreement, as well as matters related to monitoring and review, definitions, and the list and types of CB&TT in the annex. The informal working group is also debating the clearin...