Bolivia to Create Mother Earth Ministry

LA PAZ: Bolivia will create the Mother Earth Ministry, in accordance with Cochabamba's Declaration, which was adopted by the World People's Conference on Climate Change, the national media reported.

The Bolivian Information Agency (ABI) published statements by Vice President Alvaro Garcia, who ratified the idea of President Evo Morales in that reference.

It will be a Ministry that will include large part of the current Ministry of Environment and Water, but it will also be accountable for enforcing the Declaration of Cochabamba, he affirmed.

Garcia confirmed that Morales would visit the United Nations (UN) headquarters, heading an inter-continental delegation of the countries and social movements to present the Agreement of the Peoples that includes 17 items.

He will hand over the Cochabamba resolutions to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon so that the world learns about these conclusions, and also to raise other organizations' and governments' awareness about them, Garcia said.

The Summit in Cochabamba was attended by 40,000 representatives from 140 countries of the five continents, and the forum proposed specific initiatives to revert climate change and the extinction of human beings.