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Rio+20 Conference Opens in Brazil

20 June 2012

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the sixty-sixth session of the UN General Assembly, speaks at the official opening session of the UN's Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
World leaders are gathered at the conference's three-day culminating segment for talks on poverty reduction, social equity and environmental protection, and are set to adopt an outcome document based sustainable development pillars.

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