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Ecology groups worldwide slate US rejection of treaty

Rio scrambling to be ready in time
WO DE JANEIRO June J : More than two years In the planning, the Earth Summit opens Wednesday with a mission to produce an agreement to save the planet's resources, reports AP.
Rio Is scrambling to be ready tn time.
Confusion reigns on the eve of the 12-day summit, which is officially called the United Na tlons Conference on Environment and Development.
"We're going crazy." admitted Monique McClellen UN press coordinator for the event. There's not even a final
The conference will produce the biggest meeting of world leaders tn history, but it's not clear exactly who is coming. The UN press office says 142 heads of state or government are confirmed. The Brazilian government says 83
Some 700 UN officials and 3.500 delegates from 185 countries are lo take part In Speeches, debates and nego Hating sessions that have yet to be worked Into the schedule
What is certain is the con ference will open Wednesday morning al the Wocentro convention centre, a three building complex 25 miles (40 kms) west of downtown Rio. nerrtto motels and Rio * auto
There will be two minutes of silence for the Earth President Fernando Colter dr Meito then is lo open the conference in tire gray < ar pc'.rd plenary session hall especially remod elkd for the summit
After that. McClellen said. 'It s a mixed bag "
Delegates will have to complete documents left unfin meetings, she said’^or’k groups must be organ ised and officials elected
The documents Include a genera statement of ecological principles and ihe so called
Agenda 21. a controversial list of measures for environmentally safe growth into the 21st century.
Ixraders have been unable to agree on who will pay for the cleanup, which UN summit coordinator Maurice Strong has estimated will cost 125 billions dollar a year
The delegates end their work on June 11, when the summit segment starts
Meanwhile. AFP adds : Ecological parties from around the world Sunday slammed the US rejection of a biodiversity treaty due to be signed at the Earth Summit
On Friday, the State Department said the United Stales would not sign the treaty designed to preserve the world's plants, animals and other natural resources, citing concerns that the programme would give too much weight on funding decisions to developing nations
The accord was approved last week at a UN conference in Nairobi by 98 countries.
Political parties focusing on environmental protection -from Asia. Africa, Europe and Latin America -- said at their first global conference here that they would condemn the US decision in a final communique due to be issued after three days of talks
There is unanimity on the issue among the majority of the participants." Brazilian Green Party Chairman Alfredo Sirkls said.
Josep Puig representing the Green Party of Spain s Calalonia region, said there was no excuse for President George Bush's move, "and there will be none for the European Community" if the EC opts to follow suit.
Green Party activists have accused the EC of following orders from Washington, and will try at the Rio summit to
"pressure responsible chiefs of state to accept their commitments to the-jr people and to Earth tn a responsible and ethical way," Mexican Ecology Party member Natalia Escodero said.
"We will make an appeal lo them at Rlo-92 and we will be waiting for a responsible re ply," Escodero said. "Now It is time for the first step The problems are serious and pressing, and there is no time to waste."
Reuter from London adds Britain on,Sunday joined the United States In expressing reservations about a corner stone treaty due to be signed at this week's nations' Earth Summit in Rte de Janeiro.
Environment Minister Michael Howard said Britain was still considering whether to sign the ■biodiversity'' treaty to protect plant and animal species from extinction and to share the benefits from new products developed from na lure
The United States said on Friday It would not sign the accord Howard suggested the treaty was faulty on two counts the cost and the strength of the proposed measures.
"We re still looking at the text, the actual commitment to measures to protect the world’s species are pretty weak." Howard said in an interview on BBC Television
There is also a provision pn the financial arrangements which on Ihe face of It would give an international body the right to decide how much money individual countries contribute.
"Now that's something we would need to look at very carefully and wc are looking at very carefully.*
The US government said the treaty would take away rights and patents of American companies that market biological inventions.