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  • Title: [United States. Population, a new priority].
    Author: Wirth TE.
    Journal: Pop Sahel; 1993 Aug; (19):7. PubMed ID: 12318650.
    Abstract:
    Timothy Wirth of the US spoke to the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee of the International Conference on Population and Development in May 1993. US President Clinton is determined to participate and help with the renewed global effort to treat population problems. He is especially determined to help with the emergence of an international consensus on the stabilization of global population growth through a general approach of the rights and needs of women, the environment, and development. They form the basis for a new partnership between nations, men and women, and nature. It is by becoming creative and engaged partners that we will be able to apply ourselves to the task of this urgent global challenge. Population tops the US' international priorities. President Clinton understands the price of excessive population growth on women's health, the natural environment, and our hopes to alleviate poverty. He has undertaken efforts to revitalize past US population efforts. He has restored funding to family planning organizations with activities related to abortion. President Clinton calls for the US Department of State to be reorganized so that it reflects the top US international priority: population. He asks that foreign aid programs be restructured to promote development through the most effective means. He has also asked for an increase of $100 million for international population activities for fiscal year 1994. These actions have clearly established the importance the US has accorded to international population issues. President Clinton plans to restore funding to UNFPA. He wants to collaborate with the international community to deliver a consensus on population with long term objectives for global environmental preservation, improvement in health, and achievement of other development objectives. The US encourages the formulation of regional objectives on fertility and population growth. Adoption of reasonable objectives can help us estimate needed resources and evaluate completed work.
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