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Bush sends Powell to UN Earth summit, Angola, Gabon
Crawford, (Texas), Aug 20: US President George W Bush formally announced that he will not attend the UN Earth summit in Johannesburg later this month and is sending US Secretary of State Colin Powell instead.
Crawford, (Texas), Aug 20: US President George W Bush formally announced that he will not attend the UN Earth summit in Johannesburg later this month and is sending US Secretary of State Colin Powell instead.
"Poverty remains a huge and urgent global problem that demands action by the entire world community. We will stand together in Johannesburg to bring our full support to this important battle," Bush said in a statement yesterday. The gathering, formally known as the UN world summit on sustainable development, is scheduled to run August 26 to September 4.
Powell, is set to leave Washington on September 2, and will only attend the last two days of the summit, the State Department said.
Powell will lead a delegation including environmental protection agency head Christie Whitman; James Connaughton, chairman of the council on environmental quality; US agency for international development administrator Andrew Natsios; and undersecretary of state Paula Dobriansky, Bush said in a statement. They will bring "concrete and practical proposals" for "key development priorities- clean water, modern energy, good health, and productive agriculture, that can lead us to a world without poverty," Bush said.
The President also said that the summit had a unique opportunity to embrace his vision of tying development aid to democratic and market-oriented reforms by recipient nations.
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"Poverty remains a huge and urgent global problem that demands action by the entire world community. We will stand together in Johannesburg to bring our full support to this important battle," Bush said in a statement yesterday. The gathering, formally known as the UN world summit on sustainable development, is scheduled to run August 26 to September 4.
Powell, is set to leave Washington on September 2, and will only attend the last two days of the summit, the State Department said.
Powell will lead a delegation including environmental protection agency head Christie Whitman; James Connaughton, chairman of the council on environmental quality; US agency for international development administrator Andrew Natsios; and undersecretary of state Paula Dobriansky, Bush said in a statement. They will bring "concrete and practical proposals" for "key development priorities- clean water, modern energy, good health, and productive agriculture, that can lead us to a world without poverty," Bush said.
The President also said that the summit had a unique opportunity to embrace his vision of tying development aid to democratic and market-oriented reforms by recipient nations.
Bureau Report