Eritrea Calls for More Efforts to Avert Enviromental Catastrophe

United Nations (Antara Bali/Xinhua-OANA) - Eritrea on Saturday underlined the need to avert an environmental catastrophe, saying that "we must realize that there can be no technological fix of the environmental challenge."

Osman Saich, the foreign minister of Eritrea, made the statement while addressing the annual high-level debate of the UN General Assembly, which opened here Monday.

"We need to fight to avert an environmental catastrophe that awaits human kind and threatens human civilization," the minister said. "This will require more than ingenuity and advance in science and technology."

"We must realize that there can be no technological fix of the environed challenge," he said. "It will require radical change away from economic and social systems based on greed, maximization of profits for the few, massive inequality, unsustainable and unhealthy patterns of consumption and gross wastage."

"Eritrea sees its own efforts for peace, justice, development, environmental protection as part of the global struggle for a better and more fair and equitable world; for a strong, effective and truly representative United Nations," he added.
(WDY)