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| A morning
of drama as negotiations break down |
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dias during the final informal high-level Plenary session; COP-6 President
Jan Pronk tells delegates that agreement was not reached |
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Leaving the
conference room after high-level negotiations broke down in the
early morning hours on Saturday
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Activists
stayed in the conference center all night
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| Left to right:
Minitsters Jurgen Trittin, Germany, Dominique Voynet, France, and
Margot Wallstrom EC in a huddle outside their office; Trittin with
British Environment Minister Michael Meacher; and Meacher (The UK
tried to broker a deal between the US and the other EU countries,
but other EU countries, led by Green Ministers Voynet and Trittin,
did not support the deal |
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British Deputy
Prime Minister John Prescott as he storms out of the building when
negotiations break down
(Top Left
photo credit: Joop van Reeken)
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European
Commissioner Margot Wallstrom interviewd by the press
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When
news of the negotiations breaking down spread, demonstrators began
removing sandbags from the dike
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| Cutajar commented
on Pronk's good spirits during the whole process even when he fell
off his scooter, thus the bandage! |
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The
Plenary Hall and the Conference Center
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UNEP
Executive Director Klaus Topfer with Michael Zammit Cutajar (left)
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John
Ashe, Antigua and Barbuda, called for the suspension of the COP
and for its resumption early next year
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Dominique
Voynet, French Environment Minister
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Rejoice
Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minster, South Africa, Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura,
Nigeria, and Suresh P. Prabhu, India
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Above:
Jurgen Trittin, German Environment Minister (right) and President
Pronk and US Under-Secretary of State Frank Loy (below)
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Top
Left photo: Environment Ministers Siri Bjerke (Norway), Siv Fridleifsdottir
(Iceland), and Yuriko Kawaguchi (Japan); Top Right: Dominique Voynet
(France), third from right
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Left
to right: Yuriko Kawaguchi (Japan); Siv Fridleifsdottir (Iceland);
and Cutajar with Richard Kinley (Secretary of the COP) and Joanna
Depledge (Secretariat)
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Left
to right: SBSTA Chair Harald Dovland with ENB writer Lisa Schipper;
Cutajar with Mohammad Al Sabban (Saudi Arabia) and Richard Kinleyridleifsdottir
(Iceland); and Cutajar with Richard Kinley (Secretary of the COP)
and Joanna Depledge (Secretariat); Kok Kee Chow (Malaysia) with
ENB writer Angela Churie
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Jan
Pronk presents Frank Loy, US, with a Thanksgiving Cake (Loy's
press conference was interrupted earlier in the week when a demonstrator
threw a pie in Loy's face)
Photo
credit: Joop van Reeken
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