Thursday, June 19, 2008

Pakistan invited to International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress in Spain: Daily.pk

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Regional Director (Asia) Aban Marker Kabraji called on Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi Tuesday and invited him to lead the Pakistan delegation in the IUCN Congress scheduled to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2008.

She apprised the federal minister that the IUCN Congress takes place once in four years.

According to the spokesman of Ministry of Environment, the federal minister thanked the IUCN regional director for including Pakistan in its Mangrove for Future (MFF) project, which is meant to restore the coastal eco-system and to bring about multifarious benefits to millions of coastal population, threatened by tsunami-like disasters. He said that Pakistan attaches great importance to its partnership with IUCN and wants to expand it for future sustainable development cooperation in the environmental sector.

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