Peru accedes to dumping of wastes at sea treaty, presents credentials

Peru has become the 51^st State to accede to the IMO treaty covering dumping of wastes at sea. HE. Mr. Juan Carlos Gamarra Skeels, newly appointed Ambassador of Peru to the United Kingdom and Permanent Representative to IMO, presented his credentials when he met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London (31 October) to deposit the instrument of accession to the London Protocol.

The London Protocol entered into force in 2006, modernizing the original "London Convention" dumping treaty by prohibiting all dumping at sea with the exception of wastes commonly agreed by Governments and then put on an approved list.