UN
conference gearing up for make-or-break finale
World
leaders “face a defining moment in history”,
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as the Copenhagen
conference formally entered its high-level stage Tuesday.
Morten Andersen - 15/12/2009 - As heads of states and governments
were beginning to arrive at Copenhagen, a ceremony Tuesday
marked the formal opening of the final high-level stage
of the ongoing UN conference on climate change, COP15.
“We
know what we must do. We know what the world expects. Our
job here and now is to seal the deal, a deal in our common
interest,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said according
to AFP, while adding that the world’s leaders face
“a defining moment in history”.
The
Secretary-General also said that “three years of effort
have come down to three days of action. Let us not falter
in the home stretch. No one will get everything they want
in this negotiation”.
According
to Reuters, Ban Ki-moon labeled the negotiations lying ahead
over the next three days as “the most complex and
ambitious ever to be undertaken by the world community”.
In
her address the conference president, Danish minister Connie
Hedegaard, said “In these very hours we are balancing
between success and failure. Success is within reach. But
(…) I must also warn you: We can fail.”
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