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UN: Proposal Peruvian natural disaster.

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TPSIPOL FORUM: RED 14/12/2002 DEMOCRATIC

El Peruano / BULLETIN RREE
13/12/2002

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discuss natural disaster Peruvian proposal

The Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations General Assembly got the UN's decision to include for the first time in its agenda treatment of this subject.

The Peruvian representative to the UN, Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero, said that the occurrence of disasters such as droughts, hurricanes and floods are not caused solely by nature but also by climate change caused by human action.
Ambassador de Rivero said that after the report is issued and there is a story in favor of this proposal, talk to other vulnerable countries, either by geography or by a context of climate warming.

The 57 th General Assembly of the United Nations agreed yesterday on a proposal from the Peruvian representatives, dealing in next session the issue of natural disasters and vulnerability.

Discussion of this matter was made on the basis of a report requested from the secretary general of the United Nations, which reveals the "negative impact of extreme weather events and disasters on vulnerable countries, particularly developing countries, like Peru.

The Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations, headed by Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero, got the UN General Assembly's decision to include for the first time in its agenda the discussion of this topic, As countries overcame the resistance of the international community.

Shared responsibility

Ambassador Oswaldo de Rivero said that the occurrence of disasters such as droughts, hurricanes and floods are not caused solely by nature but also by climate change caused by human action.

The Peruvian proposal seeks to address the issue of such natural disasters and the vulnerability of developing countries, such as adverse effects of climate change and as a result of human activity and not as a result of " Hand of God " said.
In an interview with El Peruano from New York, the diplomat said that Peru proposes to begin to study this issue to establish responsibility. The effects of El Niño should not only pay for the Peruvians, but also emit gases that cause these climate changes.

aid, he added, not only be out of compassion, "but it will be seen as a sole responsibility."

De Rivero said that while it was an issue "delicate and hard to negotiate," he still must wait for the report that will make next year's general secretary UN, Kofi Annan, upon completion of the 58 th General Assembly.

"We have asked the Secretary General to make a report, and on that basis we will see how to create this sense of global solidarity and responsibility for disaster mitigation, which almost always occur in the poorest countries," he said.

The ambassador said that 200 years of industrial revolution and patterns of consumption and production, sustainable with nature before, have caused global climate change causing more intense rainfall, the most terrible hurricane Children and stronger, and the floods and droughts.

permanent representative at the United Nations announced that after the report is issued and there is a story in favor of this proposal, talk to other vulnerable countries, either by geography or overheating context climate.

In September, during the Summit of Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Peruvian delegation managed to include an article in the Political Declaration of the Summit, which establishes that "the adverse effects of climate change evident and natural disasters become more frequent and intense, and developing countries more vulnerable. "