New round of UN climate change talks kicks off in Bangkok

"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.

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