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Binding treaty on climate change to be reached in 2010: UN chief

2009-12-08 07:47 BJT

Special Report: UN climate change conference in Copenhagen |

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Monday that a legally binding treaty on climate change will be reached in 2010.

"The legally binding treaty will be reached as soon as possible in 2010," Ban told reporters here after he met with visiting French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner at the UN Headquarters in New York.

The secretary-general made the statement hours after the opening of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.

The Copenhagen conference, officially known as the 15th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will conclude on Dec. 18.

Around 100 leaders from the UN member countries and about 12,000 delegates and specialists from more than 170 countries will attend the conference.

Editor: Zhang Pengfei | Source: Xinhua