"We must attain both development and the management of our forest -- simultaneously, " he said.

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The president said he'd been able to achieve the first two simultaneously, with cooperation and support from the nation's labor movement.

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Numerous systems would have to be examined simultaneously in the middle of the night, which is "absurd on its face, " he said.

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