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COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR GEOSCIENCE PROGRAMMES IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA (CCOP) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 42ND CCOP ANNUAL SESSION (PART I) 13-18 SEPTEMBER 2005 BEIJING, CHINA CCOP Technical Secretariat 24th Floor, Suite 244-245, Thai CC Tower 889 Sathorn Tai Road, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120, Thailand Tel: (66) 0 2672 3080 Fax: (66) 0 2672 3082 E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: http://www.ccop.or.th September 2006 CONTENTS ATTENDANCE AND ORGANIZATION 1 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 42ND ANNUAL SESSION 2 ELECTION OF OFFICERS 2 AGENDA ITEM 1. Adoption of the Agenda 2 2. CCOP Progress Report 2 3. Member Countries’ Reports 3 4. Cooperating Countries’ and Organizations’ Reports 5 4.1. Cooperating Countries’ Reports 5 4.2. Cooperating Organizations’ Reports 8 5. Draft CCOP Workplan for 2006 9 6. Advisory Group Meeting 9 7. General Consultative Meeting 9 8. Date and Venue for the Next Annual Session 10 9. Other Matters 10 10. General Remarks from the Delegations 11 11. Thematic Session 13 12. Adoption of Report 13 CLOSING CEREMONY 14 ANNEXES : ANNEX I : LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 17 ANNEX II : SPEECHES 29 ANNEX III : AGENDA 39 ANNEX IV : CCOP PROGRESS REPORT 41 Proceedings of the 42nd CCOP Annual Session i CCOP Technical Secretariat Beijing, China, 13-18 September 2005 ANNEX V : MEMBER COUNTRIES’ REPORTS 63 Country Report of CAMBODIA 65 Country Report of CHINA 75 Country Report of INDONESIA 93 Country Report of JAPAN 113 Country Report of THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA 147 Country Report of MALAYSIA 163 Country Report of PAPUA NEW GUINEA 179 Country Report of THE PHILIPPINES 191 Country Report of THAILAND 209 Country Report of VIETNAM 223 ANNEX VI : COOPERATING COUNTRIES’ AND ORGANIZATIONS’ REPORTS 237 Country Report of AUSTRALIA 239 Country Report of CANADA 247 Country Report of DENMARK 251 Country Report of GERMANY 257 Country Report of JAPAN 267 Country Report of THE NETHERLANDS 271 Country Report of NORWAY 275 Country Report of SWEDEN 281 Country Report of UNITED KINGDOM 287 Country Report of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 291 Organization Report of ASCOPE 295 Organization Report of CIFEG 301 Organization Report of CPC 307 Organization Report of GETECH 313 Organization Report of PETRAD 317 Organization Report of UNESCO 323 ANNEX VII : DRAFT CCOP WORKPLAN FOR 2006 333 ANNEX VIII : REPORT OF THE ADVISORY GROUP MEETING 341 ANNEX IX : SUMMARY AND COMMENTS ON EAGER PROPOSALS 345 ANNEX X : ASSISTANCE REQUESTED BY CCOP MEMBER COUNTRIES 347 Proceedings of the 42nd CCOP Annual Session ii CCOP Technical Secretariat Beijing, China, 13-18 September 2005 REPORT OF THE 42ND CCOP ANNUAL SESSION 13-18 September 2005 Beijing, China ATTENDANCE AND ORGANIZATION VENUE The 42nd Annual Session of the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia (CCOP) was held at the Minzu Hotel, Beijing, China, from 13-18 September 2005. The host facilities were provided by the Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) and sponsored by the China Geological Survey, PetroChina Co., Ltd., China Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC). ATTENDANCE The Session was attended by representatives of the following Member Countries: CAMBODIA, CHINA, INDONESIA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA, MALAYSIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, THAILAND, and VIETNAM. The Representatives of the Cooperating Countries, namely BELGIUM, CANADA, DENMARK, FRANCE, GERMANY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, SWEDEN, and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA were also in attendance. The following Cooperating and Corresponding Organizations were also represented: ASCOPE, CIFEG, CPC, IUGS-GEM, PETRAD, and UNESCO. Also present at the Meeting were the Honorary Advisers of CCOP. FINLAND was also in attendance as an observer. The staff of the CCOP Technical Secretariat (CCOP T/S) and the Ministry of Land and Resources and China Geological Survey provided the necessary conference services. The List of Participants is appended to this report as ANNEX I. Proceedings of the 42nd CCOP Annual Session 1 CCOP Technical Secretariat Beijing,China, 13-18 September 2005 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 42nd ANNUAL SESSION The opening ceremony commenced with addresses delivered by: H.E. Dr. Wang Min, Vice Minister, Ministry of Land and Resources Mr. Somsak Potisat, Chairperson of the CCOP Steering Committee Dr. David Prior, Chairperson of CCOP Advisory Group Mr. Wang Baocai, Deputy Director General, China Geological Survey The speeches are attached in Annex II. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Mr. Ma Yongzheng, Head of the Delegation of China was elected Chairperson of the Session and Dr. Tai-Sup Lee, Head of the Delegation of Korea, was elected Vice-Chairperson. The Representatives from Canada, Cambodia and Korea were elected as General Rapporteurs. AGENDA ITEM 1. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA (documents CCOP-42AS/1-1, 1-2) The agenda as adopted by the meeting is given in ANNEX III. 2. CCOP PROGRESS REPORT (document CCOP-42AS/2-3) The CCOP T/S Director, Mr. Chen Shick Pei, presented the CCOP Progress Report (ANNEX IV) covering the period 01 July 2004 – 30 June 2005, with an update to August 2005. In discussion of the Directors report, the Japanese delegation requested that the Director elaborate on the project management income item in the budget. The Director explained that this represents revenues collected for project coordination services provided by the CCOP T/S, an example of which is the 8% levy on the Norwegian-supported Petroleum Policy & Management (PPM) Project. Dr. Prior congratulated the Technical Secretariat on the increased cash balance. He noted that the Steering Committee has agreed that a one-year balance/reserve is appropriate. He then inquired how these available reserves are invested to yield additional income. The Director replied that CCOP is going to invest in people, with the recruitment of the three sector managers based upon the Advisory Group’s recommendations and after approval by the Steering Committee. These sector managers could talk to more people for more programs/projects and in turn generate more revenue to CCOP. He also reported that in the meantime the financial reserve is kept in an interest bearing account. Proceedings of the 42nd CCOP Annual Session 2 CCOP Technical Secretariat Beijing,China, 13-18 September 2005 Dr. Prior added that the Technical Secretariat is to be congratulated on the steady increase in the number of its projects. However, he commented that there must be a limit to the number of projects that can be managed with the available staff. He then inquired what the optimum project portfolio for CCOP is and what plans are there for adding staff if the workload continues to increase. The Director answered that the Technical Secretariat is at its maximum working capacity. He also added that a CCOP Business Plan will be proposed to the 46th Steering Committee Meeting, to be held in the next week. The plan recommends a maximum of 18 to 20 activities per year. Dr. Prior also noted that in the Annex 1 of the CCOP Progress Report, it was mentioned that a training plan for the Technical Secretariat has been developed; however there are no details found in the report. He then inquired on the status of the Technical Secretariat staff-training plan. The Director replied that in the meeting of the Board of Management of the Technical Secretariat, the training plan has been discussed. A preliminary outline of the training plan will be presented at the 46th Steering Committee Meeting. Furthermore, the Director elaborated that there are plans for enhancing the geoscience knowledge of the non-geoscientist staff of the Technical Secretariat through in-house lectures. There will also be training on management and marketing for the staff who need it in their work assignment. The delegation of Indonesia proposed the compilation of a hydrogeologic map under the CCOP-GSJ/AIST Project on Groundwater Assessment and Control in the CCOP Member Countries. They considered this very important because regional groundwater resources can be indicated from such hydrogeologic information. Hydrogeologic information is important for locating groundwater. 3. MEMBER COUNTRIES’ REPORTS (documents CCOP-42AS/3-4 to 3-13) The reports submitted to the 42nd CCOP Annual Session by Member Countries are shown in ANNEX V and verbal presentations of highlights were made by each Member Country delegation The following comments were made during the discussions of the country reports: Cambodia Dr. A. J. Reedman (Honorary Adviser) congratulated Cambodia on their report and said that he was particularly impressed with the help that Cambodia was getting, partly through training, from other CCOP Member Countries such as Korea. From its earliest days, CCOP had encouraged Technical Cooperation between Developing Countries (TC/DC) amongst its Member Countries and its success in this area was partly instrumental in encouraging the UNDP to support CCOP from 1972 for almost twenty years and with almost ten million dollars in expenditure. In the greatly changed economic circumstances of the present day in the CCOP region, it is encouraging that TC/DC is still thriving amongst the CCOP membership and the more financially advanced Member Countries, such as Japan and Korea are to be congratulated Proceedings of the 42nd CCOP Annual Session 3 CCOP Technical Secretariat Beijing,China, 13-18 September 2005 on not merely concentrating on what CCOP can do for them but also what they can do to assist geoscience in other CCOP Member Countries. China The Director noted that it is encouraging to see the keen interest China has shown in the SANGIS Programme, with the use of the SANGIS bibliographic database in several regional libraries of the China Geological Survey (CGS). He also mentioned that ultimately the SANGIS website would be moved to the CCOP server. Korea The Representative of Canada asked whether the Jeju Island Groundwater Analysis project will be able to answer the question of how much water can be exploited sustainably on Jeju Island.