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SWITZERLAND:
Federal Councillor Ruth Dreifuss said that the
environmental aspects of trade should be considered and that change
will come through both official aid and ensuring good conditions
for adequate private investment. Priority should be given to
revitalizing existing institutions and that UN restructuring is
important. Reports to the CSD should be standardized with a
verification machinery based on a transparent peer review system,
perhaps in a regional framework. She called for a strengthening of
the DPCSD. She said that Switzerland favors doubling the size of
the GEF with institutional reform for greater participation of
Southern countries.