Johannesburg, South Africa (26 August-4 September 2002)

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Tuesday 3 September

• The negotiations on the major outcome document for the World Summit on Sustainable Development is essentially complete as round-the-clock negotiations at the ministerial level concluded with agreements on all major issues. There are still two or three objections on issues relating to health and human rights. Summit Secretary-General Nitin Desai said, in a press conference today, that the Summit had been successful sustainable in imparting a sense of urgency, in achieving "reasonably clear commitments to action in key areas," and in creating partnerships in the five priority areas-water, energy, health, agriculture and biodiversity.
  
  

• Among the agreements reached was a goal to reduce the proportion of people who lack access to proper sanitation, an agreement to work to increase access to modern energy services, to work toward increasing the use of renewable energies, and a number of targets and timetables aimed at protecting or restoring ecosystems.

• Today, 85 speakers, including heads of state or government are expected to address the Summit's plenary session. Yesterday, at the opening session of the high-level plenary, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "Let us face the uncomfortable truth "The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for the few, but flawed for the many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone." In addition to the Secretary-General and South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, 71 speakers addressed the plenary yesterday.

• Several European leaders, such as the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said they would increase their official development assistance in the years ahead. Leaders from developing countries stressed that greater international cooperation was necessary to promote sustainable development.

• The Summit is expected to wrap up tomorrow with the remaining speakers, which includes US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then with a final plenary session where the Summit outcome documents will be submitted for approval.