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General Directorate of European Union and Foreign Relations / Bulletin
Noting that the excessive accumulation and high climate-friendly urban transformation, with a ‘zero waste’
consumption rate lead to transportation, shelter, culture that embraces all people and is based on savings
environment, air and water pollution problems in cities, and compassion.”
Minister Kurum said, “Yesterday’s world that said ‘all people
are of one spirit’ has been replaced by a world where Kurum pointed out that Mrs. Emine Erdoğan and United
millions of people experience physical problems and Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres signed
spiritual crises. What an excellent saying is: “A benevolent a declaration of goodwill for the dissemination of the
state will be shadow for its people when they are left in the “Zero Waste Project” in the world, and in this sense, it was
sun, it will be a cardigan in the cold, it will have bread in promised to support all kinds of initiatives that encourage
hunger, job in poverty, and food at the dining table”. Based zero waste. Minister Kurum thanked Maimunah Mohd
on the meaning contained in this saying, the solution of Sharif, UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat)
the problems experienced on a global scale is possible Executive Director, and those who contributed to the
with social housings where a life worthy of human dignity program, mentioning his belief in a fairer world.
is maintained all over the world, with environmental and
Deputy Minister of Environment, UN Habitat
Urbanization and Climate Change Executive Director
Fatma Varank Maimunah Mohd Sharif
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