Trinidad & Tobago. 30.0 ............. 65 Tunisia (Equities).................. 50.0 ............. 65 Tunisia (Bonds)..................... 35.0 ............. 65 Tunisia (T/Bills)................... 12.0 ............. 65 Turkey (Equities)................... 18.0 ............. 55 Turkey (Bonds)...................... 15.0 ............. 55 UK.................................. 1.5 ............. 30 Ukraine (Equities).................. 70.0 ............. 260 Ukraine (Bonds)..................... 25.0 ............. 85 Uruguay (Equities).................. 60.0 ............. 90 Uruguay (Bonds)..................... 45.0 .............
Trinidad & Tobago. 9 Venezuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Zaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Total 1,000 Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Algeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bahrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 European Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (302) Belgium/Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Finland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Trinidad & Tobago. Under the mandate of the CGIAR, the IPGRI established COGENT with the endorsement of the Technical Advisory Committee. IPGRI functions as the executing institution for COGENT and provides administration and technical support and advice. An essential component for sustainable production and improvement in coconut is the availability of a wide diversity of germplasm from around the world for use as introductions or in coconut breeding programmes to develop improved coconut varieties and hybrids for coconut producing countries. To further ensure the security of germplasm in national collections which are important to each region and to provide member countries with germplasm for developing better varieties and hybrids, COGENT will establish an international multi-site genebank consisting of a regional genebank in each of the five COGENT regions. The host country will benefit from the use of the entire germplasm collection, and duplicates supplied from the other regional genebanks, in its breeding programme to develop high-yielding and adapted coconut varieties. The host countries have agreed to a 10-point criteria which include, among others, access of member countries to the held germplasm and commitment to gather and submit data and to maintain the collection. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a legally binding international agreement that sets out the sovereign rights of countries over their genetic resources as well as the responsibilities of states to conserve and to share these resources and benefits arising from their use. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in the process of establishing Global Network of Ex Situ Collections. In December 1994, close to half a million germplasm accessions of food crops held by 12 International Agricultural Research Centres under the CGIAR were placed under FAO trusteeship through a series of agreements signed by FAO and the chairman of the CGIAR acting on behalf of each of the 12 Centres. These agreements were developed in accordance with the CBD. During a COGENT workshop held on 26-28 February 1996 at Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia, representatives of IPGRI, CIRAD and World Bank participated with COGENT members in developing a series of legal agreements, 7 year workplans and proposed budgets for each of the initial four genebanks to be hosted by India for South Asia, Indonesia for Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea for the Pacific and Cote D’Ivoire for Africa. The following 5 agreements, which are c...
