UNWTO to prohibit smoking inside the building
19:05, 6 October 2009
ANA. October 6. KAZINFORM. /Muratbek Makulbekov/ The UNWTO will prohibit smoking inside its building. UNWTO Secretary General ad interim Taleb Rifai has made it public at a plenary meeting of the 18th session of the UNWTO General Assembly in Astana today.
"We should reduce our carbon footprint and show the way to others", T. Rifai said. "As the part of the United Nations Organization we obliged to allocate resources for cutting of carbon emissions. But we should not only promulgate this. Smoking will be fully prohibited inside our building", he added. Besides, the Secretary General paid attention to the excess consumption of paper by employees of the organization.