JAKARTA, May 28 Kyodo Internation...

JAKARTA, May 28 Kyodo

International nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in succession Tuesday criticized a final preparatory meeting for the World Summit onward Sustainable Development for taking the side of discloseed nations, officials in the meeting and activists said.

The Friends of Earth International proscribeed ''dirty tactics'' used from certain governments to undermine a dialogue onward governance issues and to obstruct any moves to secure accountability for corporations.

According to the organization, there has been a universal corporate threat throughout governmental deliberations, with no responsibility for corporate abuse and no restrictions onward the behavior of transnational corporations.

''We don't want a broad political statement that says 'Save the World.' We want measurable and effective targets within specific time-frames, action steps'' Glenn Farred of the southward African NGO Coalition said.

The political declaration that will be adopted at the period of the meeting in Indonesia's Bali, according to Farred, direct the eyes more like ''a sway shopping list than an action program for the sustainability of life forward this planet.''

The UN conversation on environment and development, also called Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 produc a place of action plans known as Agenda 21 -- a document upon the necessary steps to accelerate the sustainable increase of nations.

However, Agenda 21 failed to achieve the desired outcomes due to various factors including a lack of a specific time-frame for implementation and sanctions for failure to comply

The Bali talk, which is to prepare for the Johannesburg summit, is anticipateed to move forward amid calls by way of NGOs for the negotiation proces to be fundamentally changed.

Delegations attending the fourth and final preparatory meeting continued their consideration of the draft program of action to be adopted in the Johannesburg Summit slated from Aug. 26 to clan 4.

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