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I was going to post this in the Climate Change section, but on further reflection this doesn't really have anything much to do with climate change at all...:pAnd the beat goes on...
In case there is anyone out there that does think this has something to do with climate change, here's a few more choice quotes...from Geneva in July 2008 and again earlier this month...
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UN chief calls for new climate pact push
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed for world powers to make a new effort to secure a legally binding climate deal next year amid new diplomatic wrangling over the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
China hit back at Britain over claims that Beijing had "hijacked" the Copenhagen negotiations while Brazil and Cuba lashed out at the US President Barack Obama...
...China on Tuesday accused Britain of "fomenting discord" among developing countries after Britain's climate change minister Ed Miliband said China had blocked a deal in Copenhagen.
Miliband wrote in a newspaper article that China vetoed attempts to give legal force to the accord reached at the summit and that it had blocked an agreement on reductions in global emissions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said "such an attack was made in order to shirk the obligations of developed countries to their developing counterparts and foment discord among developing countries."
She told the state Xinhua news agency "the attempt was doomed to fail."
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed the United States for the talks' failure, saying Obama was not prepared to make sufficient emissions cuts...
...Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused Obama of being "arrogant" at the summit, while Britain had been the "executioner" for the United States.
"During the summit, there was just an imperial, arrogant Obama who doesn't listen, who imposes and threatens developing countries," the minister told a press conference.
Rodriguez added that "the British delegation played the role of the executioner" using attempts at "shameful blackmail" against developing countries...
...India weighed into the dispute with its government hailing the lack of targets and legally binding measures and vaunting the united front presented with China, Brazil and South Africa.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told parliament India had "come out quite well in Copenhagen".
He listed a series of accomplishments, including the thwarting of moves to impose binding targets for global reductions in carbon emissions -- something India has always rejected.
"We can be satisfied that we were able to get our way on this issue," Ramesh told lawmakers...
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed for world powers to make a new effort to secure a legally binding climate deal next year amid new diplomatic wrangling over the failure of the Copenhagen summit.
China hit back at Britain over claims that Beijing had "hijacked" the Copenhagen negotiations while Brazil and Cuba lashed out at the US President Barack Obama...
...China on Tuesday accused Britain of "fomenting discord" among developing countries after Britain's climate change minister Ed Miliband said China had blocked a deal in Copenhagen.
Miliband wrote in a newspaper article that China vetoed attempts to give legal force to the accord reached at the summit and that it had blocked an agreement on reductions in global emissions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said "such an attack was made in order to shirk the obligations of developed countries to their developing counterparts and foment discord among developing countries."
She told the state Xinhua news agency "the attempt was doomed to fail."
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed the United States for the talks' failure, saying Obama was not prepared to make sufficient emissions cuts...
...Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez accused Obama of being "arrogant" at the summit, while Britain had been the "executioner" for the United States.
"During the summit, there was just an imperial, arrogant Obama who doesn't listen, who imposes and threatens developing countries," the minister told a press conference.
Rodriguez added that "the British delegation played the role of the executioner" using attempts at "shameful blackmail" against developing countries...
...India weighed into the dispute with its government hailing the lack of targets and legally binding measures and vaunting the united front presented with China, Brazil and South Africa.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told parliament India had "come out quite well in Copenhagen".
He listed a series of accomplishments, including the thwarting of moves to impose binding targets for global reductions in carbon emissions -- something India has always rejected.
"We can be satisfied that we were able to get our way on this issue," Ramesh told lawmakers...
In case there is anyone out there that does think this has something to do with climate change, here's a few more choice quotes...from Geneva in July 2008 and again earlier this month...
:...China said it blamed the "selfish and short-sighted behaviour" of wealthy nations for the failure of the trade talks...
...Japan, meanwhile, was critical of China and India's stance..."I wonder if they were thinking about the world economy as a whole while pursuing their own national interests."...
...India's envoy to the talks, Ujal Singh Bhatia, said the "bottom line is we can't give up", while China said WTO members should "learn a lesson" from the failure...
...At the conference, the United States came under fire for its lack of leadership and incentive to move the Doha Round forward.
"We hope that the United States will demonstrate leadership in the coming months," Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma said.
The U.S. administration under President Barack Obama was criticized for being unenthusiastic about the Doha Round...
...Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said developing countries would not offer more, and India's Sharma also urged developed countries to temper their demands...
...Japan, meanwhile, was critical of China and India's stance..."I wonder if they were thinking about the world economy as a whole while pursuing their own national interests."...
...India's envoy to the talks, Ujal Singh Bhatia, said the "bottom line is we can't give up", while China said WTO members should "learn a lesson" from the failure...
...At the conference, the United States came under fire for its lack of leadership and incentive to move the Doha Round forward.
"We hope that the United States will demonstrate leadership in the coming months," Indian Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma said.
The U.S. administration under President Barack Obama was criticized for being unenthusiastic about the Doha Round...
...Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said developing countries would not offer more, and India's Sharma also urged developed countries to temper their demands...