WHAT COUNTRIES SIGNED UN AGENDA 21 ?
LIST OF THE NATIONS WHO ATTENDED AND AGREED TO THE 1992 RIO DECLARATION Â ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (AGENDA 21)
CLICK HERE to go to a  printable PDF of the first pages showing the nations in attendance
WE HAVE REQUESTED THE LIST OF INDIVIDUALS WHO SIGNED UN AGENDA 21 FROM THE UN INFORMATION CENTER. Â THE UN SPOKESPERSON RESPONDED THAT NO ONE ‘SIGNED’ IT–IN FACT IT WAS AGREED TO BY ‘CONSENSUS’ AND ALL NATIONS IN ATTENDANCE WERE IN AGREEMENT.*Â Â
According to the UN Information Center, all nations in attendance agreed to the document. Â
To read President George H. W. Bush’s press conference address at Rio after the agreement please click here.
We have also linked some of the nations to their profile at the UN which inventories their progress in Agenda 21 (most recently updated in 1997). Â Click on United Kingdom, Â United States of America, China, Iran, and Iraq for examples (countries in RED). Â All countries have profiles on the UN site. Â Just substitute whatever country name you are interested in when you click on the red colored country names below.
Afghanistan                    Botswana
Albania                        Brazil
Algeria                        Brunei Darussalam
Angola                         Bulgaria
Antigua and Barbuda            Burkina Faso
Argentina                      Burundi
Armenia                        Cambodia
Australia                      Cameroon
Austria                        Canada
Azerbaijan                     Cape Verde
Bahamas                        Central African Republic
Bahrain                        Chad
Bangladesh                     Chile
Barbados                       China
Belarus                        Colombia
Belgium                        Comoros
Belize                         Congo
Benin                          Cook Islands
Bhutan                         Costa Rica
Bolivia                        Co^te d’Ivoire
Croatia                        Lebanon
Cuba                           Lesotho
Cyprus                         Liberia
Czechoslovakia                 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Democratic People’s Republic    Liechtenstein
of Korea
Lithuania
Denmark                        Luxembourg
Djibouti                       Madagascar
Dominica                       Malaysia
Ecuador                        Maldives
Egypt                 Mali
El Salvador                    Malta
Equatorial Guinea              Marshall Islands
Estonia                        Mauritania
European Economic Community         Mauritius
Ethiopia                   Mexico
Fiji                    Micronesia (Federated States of)
Finland                   Monaco
France                         Mongolia
Gabon                          Morocco
Gambia                         Mozambique
Germany                        Myanmar
Ghana                          Namibia
Greece                         Nauru
Grenada                        Nepal
Guatemala                      Netherlands
Guinea                         New Zealand
Guinea-Bissau                  Nicaragua
Guyana                         Niger
Haiti                          Nigeria
Holy See                       Norway
Honduras                       Oman
Hungary                        Pakistan
Iceland                        Panama
India                          Papua New Guinea
Indonesia                      Paraguay
 Iran (Islamic Republic of)     Peru
Iraq                           Philippines
Ireland                        Poland
Israel                         Portugal
Italy                          Qatar
Jamaica                        Republic of Korea
Japan                          Republic of Moldova
Jordan                         Romania
Kazakhstan                     Russian Federation
Kenya                          Rwanda
Kiribati                       Saint Kitts and Nevis
Kuwait                         Saint Lucia
Lao People’s Democratic Republic    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Latvia                         Samoa
San Marino                     Tunisia
Sao Tome and Principe          Turkey
Saudi Arabia                   Tuvalu
Senegal                        Uganda
Seychelles                     Ukraine
Sierra Leone                   United Arab Emirates
Singapore                      United Kingdom of Great Britain
Slovenia                         and Northern Ireland
Solomon Islands                United Republic of Tanzania
Spain                          United States of America
Sri Lanka                      Uruguay
Sudan                          Vanuatu
Suriname                       Venezuela
Swaziland                      Viet Nam
Sweden                         Yemen
Switzerland                    Yugoslavia
Syrian Arab Republic           Zaire
Thailand                       Zambia
Togo                           Zimbabwe
Trinidad and Tobago
*The United Nations Information Center does not have the names of the parties that agreed to Agenda 21–hard to believe. Â The UN spokesperson doesn’t even seem to know that Agenda 21 is not a treaty, but is an agreement. Â Further information obtained from the UN indicated that no one actually ‘signed’ it, and the agreement was made via consensus.
Rosa,
Unfortunately, the countries that signed the treaty was the extent of what I was able to find.
All the Best, Anthony RamirezÂ
United Nations Information Center
anthony.ramirez@unicwash.org