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For Immediate Release
Contact: Erin Jensen,Email:,EJensen@foe.org

Comment on the Rio+20 Summit Closing Day

Commenting on the Rio+20 Summit closing day, Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International said:

"World leaders failed at their Summit in Rio, mainly because of the undue influence that multinational corporations have on them and the UN."

"But the parallel People's Summit demonstrated that real solutions to the current crises do exist and that people are successfully mobilizing around them."

WASHINGTON

Commenting on the Rio+20 Summit closing day, Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International said:

"World leaders failed at their Summit in Rio, mainly because of the undue influence that multinational corporations have on them and the UN."

"But the parallel People's Summit demonstrated that real solutions to the current crises do exist and that people are successfully mobilizing around them."

"By exposing the negative influence of multinational corporations we have gained considerable momentum in our efforts to reclaim the UN as a people's space. And this campaign is just starting."

Friends of the Earth fights for a more healthy and just world. Together we speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. We organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of our economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.

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