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Argentina recognizes the importance of its mountain regions and the need to protect its natural resources and mountain ecosystems from exploitation, pollution and general degradation. One of the country's priority concerns is to rethink the management of water resources.

Mountain issues have now been raised higher on the national agenda in Argentina with the establishment of a government committee dedicated specifically to mountain development. On 2 May 2005, the Secretariat of Environment of the Government of Argentina organized an inauguration ceremony in the Salon Dorado, Palacio San Martín, Buenos Aires to establish the Committee for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions of Argentina (Comité para el Desarrollo Sustentable de las Regiones Montañosas de la República Argentina).

The creation of this committee was motivated by the extensive work undertaken on mountain issues in the country during the International Year of Mountains (2002), as well as the efforts of the Cancilleriaof Argentina as a member of the Mountain Partnership and an intensive three-year collaborative process with key government agencies and institutions. This new committee is set to play an integral role in the coordination of future government activities to develop mountain regions and in the definition of strategies that focus particular attention on mountain communities.

For further information on the Committee for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions of Argentina, contact Gutiérrez Claudio Ricardo.

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