Note by the Secretariat At its first meeting, the Conference of the Parties adopted decision SC-1/5, by which it accepted the offer of the Government of Switzerland to host the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention in Geneva, the terms of which are set out in document UNEP/POPS/INC.7/INF/4. By the same decision, the Conference of the Parties invited the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme to consult with the authorities of the host Government regarding the practical arrangements for hosting the Secretariat in Geneva, noting that the United Nations headquarters