• Submitted by: manso
• Society
• 11 / 03 / 2010

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Escrito por Ileana Ferrer Fonte. miércoles, 03 de noviembre de 2010. 09:13La Paz, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) Starting Wednesday, member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America are meeting in Bolivia to advocate a common position on the importance of the rights of Mother Earth.

Participants in the forum, to run until Friday, will assess ALBA position leading up to the UN Summit on Climate Change to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in December, said Bolivian Environment and Water Minister Maria Esther Udaeta.

The ALBA meeting will also create a Ministerial Committee for the Defense of Nature, to identify tasks and projects that consider environmental management within public policies and promote new alternatives for development in harmony with nature, Udaeta stated.

The new Committee should also acknowledge the diversity of all indigenous peoples as a wealth and strength, guarantee their rights, and reevaluate ancestral agricultural systems and technologies, she said.

The La Paz event is taking place mandate of the ALBA summits of heads of state and government held in Cochabamba and Havana in October and December 2009, respectively.

Environment ministers from Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela will participate in the creation of the future Ministerial Committee, the minister stated.

According to an Environmental Ministry report, the Bolivian proposal for the creation of the Committee acknowledges the existence of common resources (atmosphere, water, biodiversity, knowledge and wisdom, among others) and basic services for Mother Earth, which should be respected and managed for the equal benefit of the society and not as commodities.

Many of the proposals to be assessed in the ALBA event came out of the First World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change, held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in April.hr/rab/iff/ga. Modificado el ( miércoles, 03 de noviembre de 2010 )

Source: PL