”It is shocking that only preliminary discussions of this matter have been possible so far in the United Nations. . . . We fear that the active use of these methods is coupled with a passive resistance to discuss them.”

Thirty years later, there is still an evident unwillingness to discuss such methods and their devastating consequences for the peoples who are victimized by them.

All such issues, which are at least as relevant now as they were three decades ago, are conspicuously absent from the agenda of the third U.N. Conference on Environment and Development which is to take place in Johannesburg during August-September of this year.

For that reason, plans are being made to circulate the Declaration of the Vietnam Environmental Conference in Johannesburg, along with copies of reports on various long-term consequences of the war.

Those reports and other materials relating to the recent event in Stockholm are available on the conference web site at: http://www.nnn.se/vietnam/environ.htm

Please continue for the Conference Declaration and other related information.

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Nordic News Nework: http://www.nnn.se
Participants in conference workshop on public health.
From the left: Mac Thi Hoa, John Constable, Le Ke Son,
Hoang Trong Quynh, Andreas Murray. (Photo: Lady Borton)