University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. April 28, 1992
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Developing nations threaten U.N.-sponsored Earth Summit
Poor blame wealthy for environmental woes
The Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - In a step toward a possible showdown over environmental policies, developing nations laid plans yesterday to blame wealthy nations for global ecological problems and demand more aid and anti-pollution technology.
But Western officials appealed for nations to cooperate on environmental issues and avoid turning the Earth into a nuclear weapon. A battle between rich and poor nations.
A proposed declaration, obtained by The Associated Press, also said developing nations will not accept outside updates on how to manage their forests.
"If the rich north expects the poor to foot the bill for a cleaner environment, Rio would become an exercise in futility," said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in opening a 53-nation meeting of developing nations, which are expected to issue the resolution tomorrow.
"The south has suffered enough. It is wrong that we should be made scape.
goats for the past sins of the north," he said.
But Shozaburo Nakamura, director general of Japan's Environment Agency, called for unity at the U.N.organized Earth Summit scheduled for June 1-12.
"It is my belief that north-south conflicts must not be repeated in Rio De Janeiro, but we must overcome them and make Rio the city of global consensus," he said.
Nakamura also said that industrialized nations should move away from policies of mass production, mass consumption and mass disposal toward more environmentally sound practices.
Japan, Britain, Germany and the United States were among developed nations invited as observers to the meeting, held to decide a joint stand for the Rio summit.
Conference officials estimated that $125 billion would be needed each year for poorer nations to expand their economies without harming the environment. Foreign aid to Third World
nations now amounts to about $55 billion a year.
Malaysian delegate Razali Ismail said buying the anti-pollution technology on the free market would be too costly for most developing nations.
Malaysia has faced sharp criticism from Western environmentalists for logging operations in some of the last virgin tropical rain forests.
"We do not cut down our trees foolishly. We need living space, we need space for agriculture, and we need the money from the sale of our timber," Mahathir said.
India's minister for environment and forests, Kamal Nath, called for international programs for re-greening the earth.
"The goal to be achieved by the new partnership should not be limited to mere containment of pollution," he said.
David Maclean, Britain's minister of state for the environment, said his nation had promised additional money to help in worldwide environmental efforts. He also suggested writing off some of the debts of the most impoverished countries.
Serbia and Montenegro join, create the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Two republics of Yugoslavia yesterday recreated the remains of their dismembered country into a new, Serbian-dominated state.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, less than half the size of the defunct six-member federation, was proclaimed in the Belgride parliament by the republic of Serbia and its lone ally, tiny Montenegro. The new state hopes to inherit the international recognition and privileges of the former Yugoslavia.
Leaders of the new country pledged that its formation would halt the ethnic war that destroyed the federation founded at the end of World War II. The war has claimed more than 10,000 lives since June, when Slovenia and Croatia seceded, followed by Bosnia-Herzegovina this year.
The United States and the 12 European Community nations boycotted a proclamation ceremony staged by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, which included hoisting a new Yugoslav national flag.
It was the last flag in Europe to drop the Communist red star but otherwise retained the blue, white and red stripes of Yugoslavia, a federation founded in the ruins of World War I and reformed, again out of ruins, after World War II.
Macedonia also has broken from the federation but has not gained the same recognition as the other new states because of opposition by EC member Greece, which fears its northern neighbors have invaded by an independent Macedonia.
The West, weary of Balkan strife and wary of Milosevic's pledges of peace, is demanding concrete action from Serbia to碰 violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina and relinquish territory captured by Serbians there and in
Croatia.
Hours after the proclamation, Bosnian authorities in Sarajevo ordered the federal army tormente moves 100,000 troops in Bosnia. But Gen. Milutin Kukanjac, commander of most troops there, earlier had said the army would not withdraw.
The 51-member Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe has threatened to expel Yugoslavia if violence in Bosnia is not halted by tomorrow.
Serbians, who make up about one-third of Bosnia's 4.4 million people, fiercely oppose independence. Paramilitary Serbians backed by the army have seized chunks of Bosnian territory in hopes of proclaiming their own republic.
Peace talks on Bosnia opened yesterday in Lisbon, Portugal, but the Croatian representative failed to show up. Another session was scheduled for today.
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