Despite the permanent efforts of mostly all of the delegates in the Mitigation group the delegate from Russia is still sticking to a objecting position. Right now secret negotiations taking place with delegates from the US, Germany and UK trying to offer special conditions to Russia with the goal to finally arrange an accord.
Rumors are going around that if the Russian delegate continues to object, Russia will be banned from the negotiations and that there will be hopefully an agreement among the other states.
Russia was allowed into the WTO in exchange for ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. If Russia refuses to continue to support international climate agreements, it should be kicked out of the WTO!!
ReplyDeleteActually, they are not in it yet - which means there is still time to keep them out!
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