Madagascar - His Excellency Leon Rajaobelina, Madagascar's Ambassador to the United States, is shown expressing his governmant's appreciation for the new debt-for-nature swap funding at a special ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on August 3, 1989.
The Ambassador thanked friends in the United States and the Congress who have helped bring Madagascar the " attention and recognition it deserved" he said.
He stated that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) had provided significant support for both development and conservation in Madagascar. He said that USAID had joined with the Government of Madagascar. He said that USAID had joined with the Government of Madagascar, the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others to develop an evironmental development plan for Madagascar that promised to bring significant new resources to the country. He noted that his country was among the first in tropical developing countries to develop a national conservation strategy.
Shown from left to right: Claude Cochin de Billy, Bankers Trust Managing Director; Kathryn Fuller, President, World Wildlife Fund; Senator Robert Kasten; His Excellency Leon Rajaobelina; His Excellency Jose Micel Andrianoelison, Minister of Agriculture, Madagascar; Mark Edelman, Acting Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development; and William Reilly, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
| Date Taken: | 12.06.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 11.20.2018 01:35 |
| Photo ID: | 3036515 |
| VIRIN: | 161206-O-AA001-001 |
| Resolution: | 3076x2448 |
| Size: | 2.94 MB |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
| Web Views: | 7 |
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