"We are looking forward to working with the Chinese government and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), in ensuring that the 2008 Olympics are remembered as the greenest Olympics so far," United Nations Environment Program Deputy Executive Director Shafqat Kakakhel told Xinhua News Agency Tuesday in Nairobi.

Kakakhel met visiting International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge on Tuesday morning. He told Rogge that he believed the Chinese authorities are committed to ensuring the Games are organized in an environmentally friendly manner and that he hoped the IOC, UNEP and China can work together.

Kakakhel was appointed deputy executive director of UNEP in 1998.

(Xinhua News Agency January 12, 2005)