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World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)

President Yoweri led a Ugandan delegation to WSSD comprising of, among others, Hon.James Wapakabulo 3rd Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon.Ruhakana Rugunda, Minister of Water, Lands and Environment, Uganda 's Permanent Representative to UN, Professor Semakula Kiwanuka, and Uganda 's Permanent Representative to UNEP, Amb.Francis K.Butagira.

The Summit took stock of the progress since the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, on environment, social and economic development-the three pillars of sustainable development.

Highlights

	Achieving the United Nations Millennium goal of reducing by half people living on less than one dollar per day by 2015.
	To halve the number of people with out access to sanitation by 2015.
	To implement food security strategies on the African continent by 2005.
	Establishment of Poverty Eradication Fund.
	Need for regional and national targets for renewable energy, and commitment to funding. Uganda successfully advocated for inclusion of Hydropower in renewable energy classification. The Summit also adopted the Johannesburg Declaration to support goals of sustainable development.

In his speech, President Yoweri Museveni observed that in order "to enter the kingdom of sustainable development "four things were needed:

	Human resource development
	Liberalizing the economy with the State providing the necessary stimuli;
	Macroeconomic stabilisation;
	Free access to markets (abolishing protectionism).

The President emphasised that it is only through promoting use of electricity in the backward parts of the globe that Environmental degredation can be curbed. He castigated the arrogant NGOs that interfere with the construction of dams for generation of hydro-electricity in developing countries such as Uganda as the real enemies of
environment.

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