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maintain maximum biological diversity by ensuring the survival
and promoting the conservation in their natural habitat of all species
of fauna and flora;
observe, in the exploitation of living natural resources and eco-
systems, the principle of optimum sustainable yield.”
Principle 4:
“States shall establish adequate environmental protection standards
and monitor changes in and publish relevant data on environmental
quality and resource use.”
Principle 5:
“States planning to carry out or permit activities which may
significantly affect a natural resource or the environment shall make
or require an assessment of their effects before carrying out the
planned activities.”
Principle 6:
“States shall inform relevant States and persons in a timely manner
of activities which may significantly affect their use of a natural
resource or their environment and shall grant the concerned parties
access to and due process in administrative and judicial proceedings.”
Principle 7:
“States shall ensure that the conservation of natural resources and
of the environment is treated as an integral part of the planning and
implementation of development activities.
States shall make available to other States, especially to developing
countries, upon their request and under agreed terms, scientific and
technical information and expertise, results of research programmes,
training opportunities and specialized equipment and facilities.”
Principle 8:
“States shall co-operate in good faith with other States or through
competent international organizations in the implementation of
measures for the protection of the environment.”
3. Let me conclude my lecture as I started it with a reference to the
United Nations Charter with special emphasis on its Preamble and
Article 2, paragraph 4. I firmly believe that Mankind’s Right to
Peace expressed in this paragraph 4 entails the obligation to practice
tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neigh-
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