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Environment agency set up

    ABIDJAN

    President Charles Taylor inaugurated the country’s first specialised body on the environment on Thursday.

    “Unless we take care of our environment, there will be nothing left for our children. The setting up of this commission is long overdue,” Reuters quotes Taylor as saying.

    UNDP has signed an agreement with the government to help fund the environment agency.

    “UNDP’s intention is to assist the Government to develop and establish a viable institution and legal regime for managing natural resources and the environment,” a UNDP source in Monrovia told IRIN.

    //CORRECTION//: The item “LIBERIA: Finance Ministry investigating loss of US $200,000” of the IRIN Update 601, 24 November, 1999 refers. Please read 200,000 Liberian dollars (US $4,700) and not (IRPT not) US $200,000 as moved.

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