New round of UN climate change talks kicks off in Bangkok
BANGKOK. September 28. KAZINFORM The latest round of United Nations Climate Change Talks started Monday in Bangkok as Thailand's prime minister and UN senior officials stressed the urgency in tackling this issue and called on speed-up in reaching a international new deal; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
"Climate change was definitely high on everyone's agenda," said Abhisit Vejjajiva, referring to the world leaders at the UN General Assembly and G-20 Summit in U.S. in the past week, which he also attended.
The talks, falling on from September 28 to October in the Thai capital, is the forth round in 2009 that led to December's Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a conference that is scheduled to seal a new deal on climate change issue to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
While calling on the strengthened efforts by all the countries to deal with this issue, Abhisit stressed that the priority of Thailand, as for other developing countries, is to make sure that climate change does not adversely affect sustainable development, economic growth and poverty eradication; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
See www.chinaview.cn for full version