Quito, 10 sep (EFE).-the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, will be in New York on 22 and 23 September next but will not attend the annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations, to be held in those same dates.
So what reported today own representative in its usual programme of Saturday, in which explained his visit to New York is intended to promote the environmental project YasunÃ-ITT.
CORREA said that it will participate in a parallel meeting to the meeting of the UN, it is also sponsored by the Secretary general of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, who has expressed his support for the ecologist initiative Ecuadorian.
“I am not going to participate in the plenary Assembly, it seems inefficient, nobody listens, they are 200 speeches…” “To lose the time”, said Correa, whose Government calls for profound changes in the Organization of Nations United.
The representative noted that the meeting to promote the YasunÃ-ITT initiative can count with the presence of special guests who will explain the project.
Initiative calls for the international community compensation, at least half (3.6 billion dollars over 12 years) the income which was Ecuador by the exploitation of the Ishpingo salted Chile sauce, Tambococha and Tiputini fields (with reservations for more than 800 million barrels of crude oil) located in the Park YasunÃ.
The project would prevent the emission into the atmosphere of about 400 million tons of carbon dioxide and the danger of contamination in the area, considered a sanctuary for biodiversity. EFE
