Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, chief scientist of Ethiopia and one of the "founders" of the international Biosafety Protocol has been denied a visa to attend the Protocols next round of negotiations end of May in Montreal.</p><p><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=28747 ">IPS Newswire</a></p><p><a href="http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=504">ETC Group: Canada Denies Visa for Africa`s Top Biosafety Negotiator -Montreal`s status as UN`s biodiversity headquarters is jeopardized</a>