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Welcome remarks of the Chair of the CGE Mr. M. Asaduzzaman Acknowledge the Chairperson, Hon. Min. Alfredo Molinas, Minister for Environment, Mr. Luis Molinas, Executive Secretary, National Council of Environment, Ms. June Budhooram, UNFCCC Secretariat, the members of the CGE, trainers and experts, the trainees and the members of the secretariat. The Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) on national communications from non-Annex I Parties is a constituted body of the Convention that reports directly to the Subsidiary Body for Implementation, one of the two subsidiary bodies of the Convention. As part of its mandate, the CGE provides technical support to non-Annex I Parties through the conduct of regional hands-on training workshops on national greenhouse gas inventories, vulnerability and adaptation assessments and mitigation. Thus far, the CGE have organized 5 regional training workshops. This is the second workshop that the CGE organized for the region. The first workshop was on greenhouse gas inventories held in Panama City, Panama, in 2004. The CGE training have provided the national experts with understanding of the climate change realities and their impacts on the ground. This understanding have been reflected somewhat in the first national communication. Then the second national communication which is under process in many countries is expected to reflect deeper understanding of climate change impacts and interventions more fully because of the capacity built through the CGE’s training workshops. At the same time, I must say that the CGE had come to realize that the ground realities differ so much between countries that in-country special training workshops are needed very much. While this is not the mandate of the CGE, we expect that the national institutions like the Ministry of Environment and the National Council of Environment in Paraguay will try to complement the GCE’s training with in-country workshops possibly with the help of regional centres of excellence. The funding for such activities, if necessary, may be obtained through the various windows of multilateral channels. I would like to thank the Minister and Executive Secretary for being with us who showed the importance they attached to climate change issues in Paraguay. I thank the various national governments and entities that sent their trainees for the workshop. I can assure them 5 day of exciting experience. I owe gratitude to the trainers and experts for their technical and intellectual help. I thank the UNFCCC secretariat which is really cog and wheel behind the organization of the workshop. Lastly but not the least, I thank Ms. Lilian Portillo, the present Rapporteur of the CGE and is expected to take over the Chairpersonship of the CGE after the COP in Nairobi later this year, for her enthusiasm and perseverance in holding the workshop here in Asuncion. Thank you all! -----