Our Planet, Volume 17, Number 1, 2006 Page: 5
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Our Planet
endure daily hardship and an uncertain future. We must face
up to the fact that the sometimes irreversible degradation
of cultural, natural and agricultural heritage, of fragile
ecosystems and biodiversity, the rapid spread of deserts, as
well as inadequate international response and local efforts
to combat desertification, aggravate conditions of poverty
across the world, deepening the crisis on a global scale.
In 2005 in San Francisco, under the slogan 'Green Cities:
Plant for the Planet', we were invited to adopt accords for
the creation of a network of cities striving for a sustainable
Urban Environment. This year, we call for the adoption of
a World Charter on Deserts and to Combat Desertification
to mark World Environment Day and the closing of
the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
In this way, we hope to contribute to achieving some of
the Millennium Development Goals, goals which were
reinforced and renewed by the decisions made by Headsof State and Government during the World Summit held in
New York in September 2005.
All our efforts aim to sustainably reinforce our common
efforts towards the development of human rights, a healthy
environment, a decent and fulfilled life and a global, real,
and sustainable development, for all. It is therefore our duty
to unite and consolidate our efforts and means and to make
them work for our common conviction, that of a common
future, for the generations of today and tomorrow and for
their legitimate right to live on a protected and safe planet.
Let this World Environment Day be an opportunity
for us all to be messengers of world peace and harmony,
messengers of hope for the future - that of our children and
that of our planet
H.E. Abdelaziz Bouteflika is President of the Democratic
and Popular Republic of Algeria.
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