The World - News from May 7, 1989
Eight nations of South America’s Amazon basin called on wealthy countries to provide money for the preservation of the world’s greatest rain forest and for the economic development of the region. At the first summit meeting on the Amazon, the governments said the funds should be provided without any strings attached. The presidents of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela and the foreign minister of Bolivia met in Manaus, Brazil, and issued a “Declaration of Amazonia.” The document, taking note of the world outcry over the onslaught on the forests, said the international attention paid to the Amazon should be converted into “measures of cooperation on the financial and technical levels”.
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