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Biodiversity treaty

Japan will join EC to break with USA
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 7: Japan will join Britain and the 11 other members of the European Community in breaking with the United States to sign a treaty to protect threatened species, officials said Saturday, reports AP.
That leaves the United States alone among the major economic powers in opposing the so-called biodiversity convention, one of the cornerstones of the United Nations Earth Summit.
President Bush has refused to sign the treaty, saying, "We’re going to keep on this path ... I must, as President, and will, as a human being, keep in mind the needs of American families to have jobs."
"With the Japanese signing, there Is no excuse for the Americans not signing," said Russell Mlttermclcr. a biologist and President of Conservation International in Washington, DC.
"The same concerns the Japanese have on the details apply to the other Industrialised nations as well. If they sign, there’s no question the US should be signing."
He said the biodiversity convention is more important than the summit's other principle document, the global warming treaty, "because loss of biodiversity is an irreversible process."
"We have the technologies to combat most other environmental Ills, but once we
lose a species of plant or animal. it's gone forever," he said.
Japan's statement on the treaty said it was "studying articles with a view to signing the convention."
Sadaakl Numata, the delegation's spokesman, said. Tn our system, we won't say we arc studying certain articles and then decide later not to sign It."
The treaty must be translated into Japanese and presented to the Japanese cabinet for approval, he said. But the suggested that was merely a formality. He said Japan might complete the process In time to sign the treaty by the end of the Earth Summit on June 14th.
A spokesman for the European countries, conscious of the difficult position the United States was in. said the European Community planned to join President Bush in his dlrs 150 million proposal to help preserve tropical forests. Laurens Jan Brinkhorst said.
"We regret the Isolation of the United States." Brinkhor-est told a news briefing, "We don’t want a slugging match of everybody against the United States."
• Brinkhorst said Britain has not formally announced Its intentions. but he predicted that England would sing before the summit ends. England's Prime Minister John Major met with Bush Saturday to discuss Earth Summit Issues, among other things.