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Outcome document of Rio de Janeiro summit adopted

Belgrade/Rio de Janeiro, 23 June 2012

The leaders of UN member states adopted last night at the summit in Rio de Janeiro an outcome document in which they pledge to support sustainable development and point to numerous challenges and dangers that the planet faces.

In the document called "The Future We Want", adopted at the close of the three-day summit, world leaders express both concern and outrage at the fact that more than one billion people live in extreme poverty and they expose a plan how to change that.

Leaders and representatives of 191 UN member states at the summit in which a Serbian delegation led by President Tomislav Nikolic also participated, pointed to a number of threats to world population, which will from the current seven billion grow to nine billion by 2050.

Some of the challenges are desertification and the disappearance of forests, land drying, environmental pollution and the disappearance of thousands of plant and animal species.

A special attention was paid to global warming, which was described as one of the major threats of our time.

We express a deep concern over the fact that all countries, especially developing ones, are exposed to the negative influence of climate change, reads the document.

It also points to the already increased adverse effects of extreme changes such as droughts, sea level rise, ocean pollution, which further complicates the fight against poverty and hunger in the world.

The outcome document establishes objectives of sustainable development, but despite a request from developing countries for a $30 billion dollar aid, the funds that are needed to achieve these goals have not been specified.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the adoption of the document because it is a plan to make the planet safer and healthier place, and highlighted the importance of cooperation of UN member states on its implementation.