France's Macron to back push for global environment rights pact


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  • Sunday, 25 Jun 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a news conference at the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Saturday to play an active role in a campaign aimed at securing a global pact to protect the human right to a clean and healthy environment.

He made the pledge at a meeting at Sorbonne University where politicians, legal experts and activists presented him with draft proposals for such a pact.

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