Sri Lanka submits progress report on environment 
[August 26, 2002  - 11.30 GMT]

Sri Lanka will submit a report titled “Sri Lanka’s Middle Path to Sustainable Development” at Johannesburg where delegates from one hundred countries have gathered for the UN Summit on Sustainable Development which begins today.

“The report is a review of activities of Agenda 21 adopted at the Rio de Janeiro conference ten years ago,” an Environment Ministry spokesman said.

The main objective of this year’s Summit is to reinvigorate political commitment to sustainable development. Rukman Senanayake Minister of Environment and Natural Resources is heading the Sri Lankan delegation at Johannesburg.

Opening the Summit this morning President Thabo Mbeki said, “I am convinced that it is our shared view that we should approach our work over the next few days in this spirit. I am also certain that we share the view that poverty, underdevelopment, inequality within and among countries, together with the worsening global ecological crisis, sum up the dark shadow under which most of the world lives.”

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Last Updated Date: August 26, 2002  - 11.30 GMT.