Recognizing the vital role that science and technology, including environmentally sound technologies, can play in development and in facilitating efforts to eradicate poverty, achieve food security, fight diseases, improve education, protect the environment, accelerate the pace of economic diversification and transformation and improve productivity and competitiveness,
认识到科学和技术，包括无害环境技术，在促进发展和帮助各国努力消除贫穷、实现粮食保障、防治疾病、改善教育、保护环境、加快经济多样化和变革步伐以及提高生产力和竞争力方面，可以发挥至关重要的作用，