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While UNEP has placed responsibility for the a:pport of SPREP with its Reqional Seas
Programme Activity Centre, SPREP has always been eoneerned with all of the South Pacific
envi-ronment, terreetrial ae well as marine. On an island it would be artificial and unrealistic
to aeparate the two. For the island countries, problems st land are at least 8s preasing as
those in tlre eea, and the prioritiee of SPREP are weighted accordingly. SPREP also triee to
be senaitive to the speciat geogrephic, economic, eocial and cultural dimensions of the region.
It is not alwaye possible to take the eame pproaches as elsewhere when lhere is a relative
lack of scientific and technical capabilitiee, and the possibilities for independent national
action in $pport of a regional plan ere much rnore limited. AU this emphasizes the
importance oi'regional co-qeration in resolving pressing environnental problems which is the
basis of lhe South Pacific Regional Environment Pmgramme.
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