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In pact, Ecuador vows no oil drilling in preserve (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

Ecuador's Vice President Lenin Moreno, right, is congratulated by members of the Shuaras indigenous group after signing the Yasuni-ITT Trusteeship in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Ecuador signed Tuesday an unprecedented document for environmental protection according to which the South American country hopes to get contributions from other countries worldwide up to 3.600 US million dollars, in exchange for not extracting oil from the Yusuní area in the Amazon. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Ecuador pledged in a pioneering agreement with the United Nations on Tuesday to refrain from oil drilling in a pristine Amazon preserve in return for some $3.6 billion in payments from rich nations.


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