Nuclear power must remain excluded from mechanisms aimed at promoting emission reductions under the international climate framework.

In Tibet on March 10th, the 49th anniversary of the failed Tibetan national uprising against the Chinese administration, protests broke out at three monasteries with Tibetan monks demonstrating peacefully against the Chinese occupation, the forced assimilation and the brutal and systematic political, social and cultural repression AND humiliation to which Tibet has been subjected by China.

Ingrid Betancourt, delegate to the 1st Congress of the Global Greens in Canberra 2001, founder of the Green Party Oxigeno de Colombia, member of the Federation of the Green Parties of America, was kidnapped by the FARC on 23 February 2002 and, togther with other hostages, is still being held captive in the forests of Colombia.