Zimbabwe expected to chair key UN environment body - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Zimbabwe expected to chair key UN environment body
09 May 2007 19:42:45 GMT
Source: Reuters

UNITED NATIONS, May 9 (Reuters) - Zimbabwe appears set to head the
Commission on Sustainable Development, the main U.N. inter-governmental
body on environment and development, diplomats said on Wednesday.

But Norway said the election was not certain and added its objections to
those of the United States and other Western nations to the candidacy
of Zimbabwe, whose economy is crumbling with inflation running above
2,000 percent.

Erik Solheim, Norway's international development minister, said the issue
was not settled yet on whether Zimbabwe's Environment Minister Francis
Nheme would be elected to the post at the end of this week. His nomination
has broad support from African nations, whose turn it is to assume the
leadership.

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