The President
of the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
the Basel Convention (COP 9), in his statement on the way
forward on the Ban Amendment (Document UNEP/CHW.9/CRP.20),
called for a process to explore means by which objectives
of the Ban Amendment might be achieved.
Based on the statement of the President
of COP 9, Switzerland and Indonesia announced their readiness
to organize a “Country-led Initiative” (CLI),
inviting key players, to discuss in an informal, dynamic,
and non-dogmatic manner those issues related to the transboundary
movements of hazardous wastes, especially to developing countries,
contrary to the overarching objective of the Ban Amendment.