Wish you were here
As
the world's leaders flock to Copenhagen only a minority
of countries are not represented at heads of state and government
level. Reuters has the list of countries that did not send
their leaders.
Morten Andersen - 18/12/2009 - A record number of 119 leaders
from countries estimated to represent 89 percent of the
world's economic output are gathered for the UN conference
on climate change. Still, a number of heads of state didn't
come. Reuters has compiled a list.
One
group of countries on the list are oil producing. These
include Angola, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE (United Arab Emirates).
Another
group consists of island states: Antigua & Barbuda,
Barbados, Cape Verde, Cuba, Fiji, Jamaica, Solomon Islands
and Tonga. However, most of these nations are represented
in Copenhagen by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
Ten
Latin American countries are not represented by their leaders:
Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Finally,
for various reasons, the heads of state from Italy, Switzerland
and Ukraine were not able to come – Italy's Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi because he is recovering from
injuries after an attack a couple of days ago.
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