The aim of the Accra talks is to prepare the agenda for the Poznan Climate Change Conference and to discuss a number of substantive issues concerning strategy form action during the months to come. Mr. Janusz Zaleski, Under-Secretary of State, Polish Ministry of the Environment, Mr. Janusz Reiter, Polish Ambassador for Climate, and Ms. Joanna Maćkowiak-Pandera, Chief of the Minister's Political Office, Polish Ministry of the Environment, attended more than 20 bilateral meeting for the purpose of consulting the most important matters to be discussed at the informal meeting of Environmental Ministers that is planned to convene in the mid October 2008. Professor Maciej Nowicki, Polish Minister of the Environmental conveyed invitation to about 40 Environmental Ministers worldwide for this meeting of the Friends of President in order to set out the focus of the COP 14. 

Bureau of the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change appraised very positively the report submitted by the Polish Environmental Ministry on the preparations ongoing in Poland to host the Climate Change Conference in Poznan. Under-Secretary Janusz Zaleski presented Poland's position on the major negotiation objectives of the future Polish COP Presidency and also information on the current logistic arrangements under way. Mr. Ivo de Boer, the UNFCCC Executive Secretary stated that Poland has been excellently prepared to host the Conference in this December, and that none of the Polish Governments has made so huge effort aimed at provision of suitably high level of this class event. 

During the Accra meeting, the Polish COP 14 Organisation Team manages an information desk which renders information services on the City of Poznan, its hotels and any other issues being of interest to the delegates from all countries worldwide to arrive safely and timely to Poznan at the beginning of December. 
 
(-) Elżbieta Strucka
Ministerial Spokesperson
 
 

Debate held being by  the Convention Bureau (from the left) Ms. Salwa Dallah, Mr. Janusz Zaleski, and Ms. Malgorzata Snarska	Inaugural ceremony of the Climate Change Talks, (from the left) in the first row: Mr. Harry Owusu Minister of Finance, Ghana; Mr. Rachmat Witolear Minister Environment, Indonesia; Mr. John Kufuor, President of Ghana, Mr. Ivo de Boer Executive Secretary UNFCCC; Ms. Connie Hedegaard, Minister of Environment and Climate, Denmark.
From the left: Ambassador Mr. Janusz Reiter, Mr. Janusz Zaleski, Under-Secretary of State, Polish Ministry of the Environment, Ms. Connie Hedegaard, Minister of Environment and Climate, Denmark; Mr. Rachmat Witolear, Minister of the Environment, Indonesia	From the left: Mr. Janusz Zaleski, The Polish COP14 Organisational Team, and Ms. Joanna Mackowiak-Pandera, Chief, Polish Minister’s of the Environment Political Office
Welcome to Mr. John Kufuor, President of Ghana