---------- From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:48:09 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] International Environment Summit opens International Convention about Environment Inaugurated at Havana (AIN June 18, 2001) The II International Convention about Environment is being inaugurated today at the Convention Palace , at the opening of the II International Convention about Environment and Development that includes seven congresses and a workshop about the community, there is 25 countries . Delegations coming from Latin America and the Caribbean , besides the United States and Spain announced Doctor Fabio Fajardo, the Cuban Vice Minister of Science, Technology and Environment . Sessions will be until Friday in congresses about Environment Education for Sustained Development, Policy and Law, Economy, Biological Diversity and Protected Areas, Energy and Risks for Health. Round Tables are linked with Globalization and Environment , José Martí and Nature and Financing for a Sustained Development , meanwhile the II Workshop about Community is sponsored by the Defense Committee of the Revolution (Blocks in the cities organized) and its opening is foreseen for this morning. Enterprises and Cuban - Foreign institutions will show their most important products and services in the III Fair-Exposition that at the same time is open at the Conventions Palace. In the events, there will be governments representatives, industries , academics, educators , non government organizations , community leaders and farming workers . _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________