Within the framework of the World Trade Organization we shall promote the integration of sustainable development within the multilateral trading systems and ensure that trade rules are compatible with strong and effective environmental policies. We shall ensure that the international economic climate is conducive to helping developing countries and countries with economies in transition to produce goods and services and to have access to markets. We shall support all efforts to ensure that goods and services produced by all countries are environmentally friendly. We confirm the Commission on Sustainable Development as a main forum within the United Nations system for ensuring the full integration of economic and social development considerations with those of environmental protection. We reaffirm that the United Nations Environment Programme has been and shall continue to be the principle United Nations body in the field of environment and that we shall strengthen its standing and reform it to become the leading authority in that field.
Time is of the essence.
We need every hand to reverse the deterioration trend. The attached programme for the further implementation of Agenda 21 is our vehicle to achieve that. We shall do all we can to ensure that the public at large feel ownership of this programme. Only then can the programme be fully implemented.