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Bolivia laying blame after recent flooding
Saturday, 24 February 2007 15:44The Bolivian President, Evo Morales, has said developed countries and their failure to combat climate change are responsible for weeks of flooding that have killed nearly 40 people in Bolivia.
He accused wealthy countries of ignoring the Kyoto Protocol which seeks to halt climate change.
A spokesman for the International Red Cross, Georgio Ferrario, said more than 350,000 people had been affected, many of them from poor indigenous communities.
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