KYOTO PRE-WRITE
June 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLA TOP level EU delegation will fly to Tokyo next week, (July 9), in a desperate bid to salvage the Kyoto Protocol from being wrecked by the intransigence of the Bush administration in Washington. Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom, and ministers from Belgium and Sweden, (representing the current and next EU presidencies), planned their mission after reports emerged from a summit meeting between Bush and Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi, that Tokyo would abandon the global warming treaty, if the US refused to sign.Brussels had been hoping that ...
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