Egypt Calls for Ozone Preservation
Egypt, Environment, 3/12/2001

The UN is witnessing a series of regarding the issues of air transport and the atmosphere. These meetings come within the preparations for the ninth session of the General Assembly's Committee for Sustainable Development.

The meetings are important especially after UN conference on climate change in the Hague failed to reach an agreement due to the participant countries' disbutes.

Egyptian permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Ahmed Abul Gheit, said that the developing countries have during the meetings stressed that realizing socio-economic development is their first priority.

He added that the advanced countries have to shoulder their responsibilities as regards world climate deterioration especially since the highest rate of CO2 emissions comes from the member states of the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization, which includes the industrial countries.

Abul Gheat also remarked that the developing countries have called upon the international community to immediately provide them with environment friendly technology so as to be able to meet the needs of their peoples and turn into means of transportation that are less harmful to the environment.

The Egyptian delegation has frequently stressed that sustainable development is closely connected to the impact of atmosphere changes on human activity, said the Ambassador. He pointed out that the emissions resulting from human activities have been increasing more quickly over the last few decades due to the activities of power generation and transportation.

He also explained that the administrative agreement on climate change and its protocol are of great significance as they address the issue of reducing gas emissions with a view to reaching the stability of atmosphere gases concentrations.

Egypt is strongly urging advanced countries to provide all necessary materials to the multilateral fund of the Montreal protocol. This fund is playing a positive role in helping developing countries gradually give up the use of ozone harmful materials.

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