UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize For Environmental Conservation 2019 [antikvár]

<5thA WARDI N G CEREMONYBUDAPESTHUNGARYTHE SPEECH OF HIS MAJESTY SULTAN QABOOS BIN SAIDEARTH SUMMIT -BRAZIL, 3-14 JUNE 1992On the occasion of the convening of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development it gives us pleasure to address the world community at large, especially the conferees, recalling their previous meeting in Stockholm, that historic gathering, which is regarded as the first sound step for establishing a correct relationship between man and the environment.Since that meeting was held twenty years ago the world has witnessed numerous environmental catastrophes as a result of conflicts and other man-made pollutants before it has again realized the gravity of the present situation.We in the Sultanate of Oman and in the Arab world as a whole would like to pay tribute to the U.N General Secretariat's decision, as well as to its role in organizing the Conference. We would also like to thank the friendly government of Brazil for the efforts it has exerted to make such excellent arrangements for the Conference.As human-beings co-existing on this planet we havgravely neglected the vital necessity of conserving the environment and natural resources due to the lack of collective coordination. Indeed, we have taken a potentially fatal opposing course of luxury and industrial progress, regardless of the resulting imbalance between development and the environment, and without taking into account the dire conseguences of the effects upon the atmosphere and the ozone layer, river and sea water, the extermination of certain species, the destruction of forests, and the contamination of once fertile soil. Should this continue, humanity will court collective suicide.