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'The city of marvels' to shine again
RIO DE JANEIRO. May 24; Twenty years after the first UN meeting on the environment convened In Stockholm, most of the planet's leaders will gather for a repeat summit here next month tn search of ways to stop the wasting of natural resources that began with the industrial revolution, reports AFP.
Just two heads of state attended the Stockholm meeting in 1972. This year, more than 100 heads of government and 185 delegations totalling 30,000 people arc expected for the mammoth Rio Parley scheduled for June 3 to 14.
To protect the participants. Rio de Janeiro is mobilizing 35.000 soldiers and police. Brazil Is also spending 300 million dollar to bring back some of the shine that earned Rio the nickname The City of Marvels."
In the past two years, the airport has been modernized and connected to downtown via a new highway. In the past four years. 600 kilometers of
highway have been resurfaced and 300 kilometers of road given new lighting. And soon the city will open the world's largest garbage recycling plant with a capacity of 1,120 tonnes of garbage every day.
About 3.500 official delegates and 700 UN officials will attend the conference, which will be held tn a huge park 25 kilometers south of the city.
Non-govvmmcntal organizations invited to the meeting are sending 20,000 delegates, who are to gather in the huge Flamego Public Park tn downtown Rio near the bay. Just the catalog listing the hun dreds of meetings, conferences and seminars they have scheduled takes up 250 pages.
But with a week to go before the meeting opens, organizers are pulling out their hair because they have a 1.8 million dollar deficit out of a total budget of 11.6 million dollar. If they cannot find the money, participants could ar rive to find empty tents, with no tables or chairs.
Indigenous people - who claim to represent 37 million people around tile world - have-taken advantage of the summit to organize their own global meeting. They will be holding two gatherings, one of which will be held In a huge "matoca" or communal hut built on the outskirts of Rio.
Brazilian organizers of the gathering which some local humorists have called "the biggest global jostle ever or gantzed" — have done all the work In just a couple of weeks.
Brazilian President Fernando Collor moved the country's seat of government from Brasilia to Rio for the d'l ration of the conference. All the hotels on the famous beaches of Copacabana. Ipanema and Leblon have been requisitioned for delegates. Highways are temporally closed to traffic and there is talk of declaring holidays for the four last days of the summit.
The Mayor of Rio. worried about the city’s Worsening Im-
age abroad, plan* to um the conference as a way to .< t tract more tourists Parks and gar dens In residential areas arc being renovated and cmbel lishcd Sidewalk vendors have been banned - so far without success — from downtown Churches and charity organlza lions have been mobilized to shelter the thousand aban doned children and teenager* during the nights.
Rumours arc that the homeless have been firmly told to remain In Nllerlo across the bay from Rio during the conference It is likely that po lice will hammer out a truce with drug traffickers tn the shantytowns for the duration of the conference, as they usually do during carnival
The 9 5 million residents of Rio de Janeiro are very con scious that the city’s future as a tourist attraction hinges on the success of the summit. And they believe they can pull it off. As the signs on the city s yellow cabs say: "Rio: 1992 capital of the world "