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exhibition at Ledra Palace opened on November, 27th
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AN ENVIRONMENTAL poster exhibition was launched yesterday at the Ledra Palace as part of the ‘Action for Co-operation and Trust’ (ACT) initiative aiming to promote awareness of environmental issues in Cyprus.
‘Nature without Boundaries’ – the name of the exhibition – was conceived out of the World Environmental Day conference that took place last summer. It aims to highlight the idea that environmental issues do not remain within politically defined physical boundaries.
US and UN representatives both addressed those assembled for the opening, with UN spokesman Michael Moller stating, “there is an urgent need for an integrated, bi-communal response to environmental health issues in Cyprus.”
A spokesperson from ACT explained, “Avian flu is not hampered by barbed wire; grass does not stop growing at the perimeter fence; pollution does not show its ID card at crossing points. The island is united by a set of interconnected ecosystems which can only be protected by pursuing a coherent policy.”
ACT aims to promote co-operation and trust between the communities of Cyprus, and argues that the environment is the natural place to start as it represents the shared values and common natural heritage of all the inhabitants of the island.
US Ambassador Ronald Schlicher stressed the need for trust and co-operation between Turkish and Greek Cypriots if a solution to the Cyprus problem is to be reached, concluding that, “Regardless of the shape or timing of a final settlement to the Cyprus problem, it is the people who will have to make a settlement work”.
The exhibition is on at the Ledra Palace, and is part of a UNDP initiative. |
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=29310&cat_id=1 |
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