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UN Tells Honduras to Fight
Poverty
Kemal Dervis, administrator of
the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP), recommended
Honduras to work to reduce its
80% level of poverty as a
critical factor for development.
"To fulfil the Millennium
Objectives this Central American
nation needs faster growth," he
added, and met with Honduras
president, Manuel Zelaya and
other officials over the
cooperation program developed by
UNDP.
"Each country must develop its
own policy and different regions
have different circumstances,"
the Turkish UNDP official
emphasized.
According to UN figures, this
nation has seven million
inhabitants of which 1.6 suffer
extreme poverty, seven percent
of which are children.
Dervis traveled to Costa Rica to
continue his tour that will also
take him to Guatemala. There he
will visit projects linked to
sustainable environmental
development in the indigenous
region of Quitirrisi to recover
degraded forest regions.
Dervis will be in Guatemala
until the 18th of this month
where he will meet with vice
president Eduardo Stein,
chancellor Gert Rosenthal and
Nobel peace laureate, Rigoberta
Menchu.
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