United Nations, December 23, SPA -- U.N. General Assembly President Ali Treki has affirmed that a“really good progress” was made at this month’s summit on climate change in Copenhagen towards a binding agreement “to save the world,” with the United Nations leading the way to possible adoption at next year’s meeting in Mexico. “There are complaints that some countries have not been dealt with carefully, other countries believe it was not democratic, other groups believe that the matter has been out of the hand of the U.N. and they would like also that [the] U.N. would take over this problem again,” Treki told a year-end news conference yesterday in New York City about the summit, which set no mid- or long-term limits on greenhouse-gas emissions for individual countries. “But I think we should be realistic that what happened there, it is really something positive,” the President said, noting that he had not expected a concrete binding resolution to emerge. “I think that the conclusion of a certain agreement was really good progress and we have to follow that up.” “We all agree that the United Nations should take the lead, and we’ll continue to take the lead, and we will have certainly the summit of Mexico. We’ll finish what we have started in Copenhagen. But I’m very happy that the majority of countries of the world are aware of the dangers of this problem and they would like to do what they have to do to save the world and to have an agreement, a binding agreement,” Treki said.--SPA 11:23 LOCAL TIME 08:23 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/731025
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