Word: documention
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...goal of the conference is to reach general agreement on how to control the world's population, which is 5.7 billion and headed toward a disastrous 10 billion by the year 2050. Many issues are not in dispute; in fact, more than 90% of a draft document has been agreed on by representatives of 180 U.N. member countries. But the remaining 10% contains some bombshells. One proposal calls for extending contraceptive services directly to adolescents. Equally controversial is language urging governments to protect the millions of women who die each year from unsafe abortions...
...spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, accused Vice President Gore of misrepresenting the U.S. position on abortion. Referring to a recent speech in which Gore stated that "the U.S. has not sought, does not seek and will not seek to establish any international right to abortion," Navarro-Valls said, "The draft document, which has the United States as its principal sponsor, contradicts, in reality, Mr. Gore's statement." To bolster his claim, Navarro-Valls cited a U.N. proposal that women "have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of fertility regulation." That language, he contended, was meant to include the right...
Sadik, meanwhile, counterattacked. "There is so much misinformation going around that it generates its own momentum," she said. "I don't think the conference opponents have even read the draft document." Egyptian Population Minister Dr. Maher Mahran was more emphatic. "We all live in one boat," he told a gathering of Arab organizations just prior to the conference. "No country can withdraw, set itself aside, and those who do this are defeatists." At least one prominent conservative Egyptian religious leader defended the meeting, assuring Muslims that Mubarak had promised the U.N. document would not impose rules contravening Islamic teaching...
...unusually personal criticism, Pope John Paul II's spokesman assailed Vice President Al Gore, head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on % Population and Development opening this week in Cairo. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the conference's draft document, principally sponsored by the U.S., "in reality contradicts Mr. Gore," who pledged that the U.S. will never try to establish a universal right to abortion...
Delegates at the U.N.'s population conference hammered out a plan that, if successful, will help control birth rates. But the arguing at this highly contentious gathering isn't over just yet; a vote on the document is expected tomorrow. The so-called "Program of Action" seeks to curb population by promoting economic development and educating women. Delegates today overcame the final sticking point in favor of Western countries by ruling that migrants did not have automatic rights to reunite with their families. The Vatican is expected to continue its opposition because the plan does not denounce abortion; it leaves...