100+ leaders to attend COP15
2009-12-04 20:29
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Copenhagen - More than 100 heads of state or government have confirmed their participation in top-level talks at the end of the UN-led Copenhagen climate conference, Danish government officials said on Friday.
"More than 100 heads of state and government have said they will take part in the summit talks," a Danish government official told AFP.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has invited 191 world leaders to the final two days of the December 7-18 talks aimed at coming up with concrete measures to combat global warming, notably by arriving at a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.
The Scandinavian country said it would not be issuing a list of the countries that have confirmed their participation.
But among those who have publicly said they are going are British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
US President Barack Obama has said he will attend the climate negotiations in Copenhagen on December 9, well before the summit of world leaders.
- SAPA
