| Angola; Children Represent the
Country At World Summit in Japan
Three Angolan children will represent the
country in the World Children´s Summit on Environment, to be
held from 26 to 29 July 2005, in Aichi, Japan.
Speaking to Angop today, Constantino Mendes, secretary for cooperation
of Angola's Ecological Youth organisation (JEA), said that the
children will attend the event in light of Expo-2005, happening
in Japan until September of the current year with the motto
"Knowledge and Nature".
Water, biodiversity, human safety concerning natural disasters,
children's rights regarding a healthy environment, are the topics
to be debated in the conference, among other others.
Three tutors of JEA will accompany the children selected in
Angola's Scouts Association, Angolan Pioneers Organisation (OPA)
and students.
In Japan, the children will equally visit the pavillions related
with the environment in order to learn of new technologies which
change the environment.
The conference is organised by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP).
Africa, as the cradle of humanity, will display items which
shows its way of life, from primitive to modern times.
Angola is at Africa's pavillion (except South African and Egypt)
and displays a village of pastors of the Kwvale ethnic sub-group
of the Nhaneka-Humbi people (located between the north of Cunene
province and the south of Huíla), besides natural resources
linked to the sector of oil and diamonds technologies.
Expo-Japan 2005 is being held in an area of 173 hectares, in
Aichi, to the East of Nagoia, Japan's third largest city.
The world exhibition is being attended by over 120 countries
and international organisations, it is expected the attendance
of 15 million visitors from all parts of the globe.
Africa News/ Angola Press Agency (Luanda),
12.04.2005
Embassy of Republic of Angola, 2005
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