Rio Janeiro — Miss Universe, the Angolan Leila Lopes, handed over on Sunday a prize of combating desertification at the UN conference on sustainable development, taking place on 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The prize, estimated at USD 400.000, was won by a Haitian project.
The Angolan national was nominated UN Ambassador for arid of the planet zones.
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