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Press Release


ENV/DEV/527
8 November 1999


Press Release
ENV/DEV/527


MINISTERS PLEDGE TO FINALIZE CLIMATE AGREEMENT BY NOVEMBER 2000

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BONN, 5 November (UNFCCC) -- Ministers and officials from 166 governments are concluding two weeks of climate change talks here after setting an aggressive timetable for completing the outstanding details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change by November 2000, thus triggering its early ratification by governments.