'Good outcome' of KL Declaration

'Good outcome' of KL Declaration

KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The draft of the Kuala Lumpur Declaration, adopted by senior officials early today, is better than expected, Science, Technology and Environment Minister Law Hieng Ding said.

"The three-day senior officials meeting (SOM) produced a favorable outcome because of the good response from the delegates," he said.

The SOM, preceding the Second Ministerial Conference of Developing Countries on Environment and Development beginning today, reached final consensus on the draft to be presented to the conference for adoption at 12.30am.

"SOM chairman Tan Sri Razali Ismail distributed the draft to delegates at the conference this morning but it would only come up for discussion tomorrow," said Law, who is also conference chairman.

Speaking to reporters, Law said the draft just needed fine-tuning by delegates over the next two days. He said observers from developed countries in general responded favorably to the developing nations’ call for "establishing partnership" towards achieving sustainable development.

"The United States had also shown a change of attitude and this augured well for the Summit," he added.

Sustainable development mainly means that the present generation must conserve resources to allow future generations to meet their needs.

Today’s meeting appointed three co-chairmen for the conference. They are Prof Dr Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol of Thailand, the president of Chulabhorn Research Institute, Venezuelan Environment Minister Enrique Colmenares Finol and Mauritius Minister of Environment Quality Dr A.S Kasenally.

Quotes

IT would be futile to carry home the dry bones of Agenda 21 without the flesh of the financial resources.

Pakistan Minister for Environment and Urban Affairs Anwar Saifullah Khan on the additional financial resources offered to the developing nations.

WE cannot point our fingers at others as when we do, four fingers are directed at ourselves.

German Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Professor Dr Klaus Toepfer in an interview on the conservation of forests.

IF the rich will pay twice the price for timber, logging can be reduced by half. It is as simple as that.

Prime Minister Datuk Sen Dr Mahathir Mohamad in his opening address.

THIS is not an environmental error, It is a technological transfer error.

German Federal Minister for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Professor Dr Klaus Toepfer when he accidentally. rewound a tape recorder beside him that switched off instead of pushing the recording knob.

I BELIEVE Japan is able to play a significant role to cope with the global environmental issues and this is one of the responsibilities Japan should assume.

Mr Shozaburo Nakamura, Japan Minister in charge of Global Environmental Problems.

Source : New Straits Times, April 28, 1992

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