During a rare overseas travel to attend the United Nations-led climate summit in Egypt, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro urged “powerful states” to fund the defence of the Amazon rain forests.
Maduro said today, Saturday, he suggested holding a summit in South America on protecting the Amazon forests with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, according to Bloomberg News Agency on Saturday.
In remarks to reporters, the president of Venezuela added: “We need to resume protecting the Amazon, recovering the Amazon, and forcefully reflecting the Amazon destruction process to the contrary.” He also said that Venezuela will propose that the major nations support the recovery of those forests.
Maduro asks for a meeting to protect the Amazon rainforest while travelling to Egypt to attend a cup match.
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