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Rio meet may witness a N-S battle
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2: On the eve of the world • ronment. rich and poor nations clashed over key treaties and diplomats fretted over whether the event would end in triumph or tragedy, reports Reuter
The two-week United Nations Conference on the Envi ronment and Development (UNCED). starting Wednesday, will bring together around 100 heads of state or government to find way* of boosting growth without wrecking the planet.
Billed as a new chance for North and South to come together after the cold war, diplomats say the Rio meeting could turn instead into a new battleground over controversial Issues such as debt, trade, forest exploitation and the price
As delegations prepared for the pre-summit skirmishing Tuesday. the United States was taking most of the flak.
Washington announced last Friday II would not sign one of the meetings main treaties, a "biodiversity" agreement to protect endangered species and share the riches from new products developed from nature.
Delegations from the European Community to Brazil condemned the move, though it later became clear other lead -ing nations Including Britain and Japan also had serious reservations.
Diplomats said a drafting lapse during preparatory talks in Nairobi had produced a document which could be Interpreted as giving convention authorities the right to dictate how much money individual countries should pay to finance the agreement.
An announcement that Washington would instead set aside tens of millions of dollars a year to help preserve the world's forests did not Impress some disappointed delegates.
Marcos Azambuja, chief negotiator for host-nation Brazil, said the US forest money as a unilateral gesture which was out of tune with the Earth Summit’s planet-wide agreements.
There is no linkage between not signing the biodiversity agreement and giving 100 million dollars for forests.” he said. "One doesn't rescue the other.
Botswana's delegation head Seeiso David Ltphuko said: The US Itself contributes greatly to the sort of problem we are facing."
The environmental group greenpeace described the US forest money as a "cynical move to mask Washington's attempts to sabotage the Earth Summit”
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