ISO: ZWE *************************************************************************** The electronic version of this document has been prepared at the Fourth World Conference on Women by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Secretariat. *************************************************************************** AS WRITTEN *************************************************************************** Excerpt from Press Release. The written statement was not available in a scannable language at the time of presentation in the conference. *************************************************************************** FLORENCE CHITAURO, Minister of National Affairs, Employment and Cooperatives of Zimbabwe: "Equality in poverty is not our aim", Minister of National Affairs, Employment and Cooperatives of Zimbabwe, Florence Chitauro, told the Fourth World Conference on Women this morning. Stressing the need to end the feminization of poverty, she said any watering down of the language in the Conference's platform of action would impact negatively on the advancement of women. Equality of women and men in all respects should be ensured and not "considered", she said.