Jakarta, (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian government will host the 11th session of the special meeting of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GC/GMEF)of the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) to be held in Bali, February 24-26, 2010.

A decision to that effect, the foreign ministry said Thursday, was signed by Indonesian Ambassador/Permanent Representative to UNEP Budi Bowoleksono, and representative of UNEP executive director Achim Steiner, in Nairobi, Kenya.
The special session in Bali will be themed "Environment in the Multilateral System" and several other topics of discussion including international environmental management and sustainable development, green economy, biodiversity and the ecosystem.

The Indonesian government hoped the forthcoming special session of GC/GMEF in Bali will increasingly focus on the environment in the national development not only as the materialization of Indonesia`s environmental diplomacy.
The Nairobi-based UNEP is an important UN agency handling the environment by way of aid programs for the developing countries in the development of environmentally friendly policies.

UNEP also established partnership and capacity support at national level, aimed at raising environmental issues on development.

The GC/GMEF is the highest decision making agencies at UNEP whose members are the ministers of UNEP member countries. GC/GMEF held regular meetings to provide directives to the organization relating to work programs and budgets as well as important decisions on organization and future programs.

Environmenal issued had drawn the interest of the international world, especially toward next month`s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen to formulate the replacement of Kyoto Protocol which will expire in 2012.

Bali in 2007 had also hosted a UN conference on climate change formulating a Bali roadmap for the Copenhagen conference.(*)