Brussels, 02/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - Some twenty heads of state and over 110 ministers met in La Havana on 1 and 2 September for the sixth Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, which entered its political phase on Monday. One of the tasks for the delegates was to see how the Convention could be made into an instrument of the millennium development objectives for the eradication of poverty and for food safety, and how the promotion of sustainable...