His Excellency Suleyman Demirel
Prime Minister of Turkey
Government House
Ankara, Turkey
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
I write to commend for the initiative to create the Turkish
Environmental Technology Park and to salute its inauguration.
This commendable initiative is an important and tangible application
ofthe spirit of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janairo, Brazil in 1992 which called
for a global partnership between developing and more industrialized countries
in part through the transfer of environmentally sound technologies.
Your leadership on this matter is providing your great country a unique
opportunity not only to meeet and solve its own environmental challenges but
also to export environmental technology to other developing countries in a
broader region. The environmental challenges you confront in such areas as air
pollution, water pollution, waste management, land use and soil erosion, noise
and maintaining biodiversity are enormous. But through your leadership on
this issue and through the Park, you will be able to lead a larger region into the
21st century.
I commend you and your colleagues involved in the Izmir Environmental
Technology Park. You can be proud of what you are doing and the United
States can be proud of our multifaceted associations with Turkey and our
expanding cooperation which will help cement close and strong bilateral ties
into the next Century.
With best wishes for 1993.
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Sincerely, Lee H. Hamilton Chairman |
