Washington: US President Barack Obama left
for Copenhagen Thursday night to attend the summit on climate
change, hoping that the meeting of the key world leaders in
the last phase of negotiations would be able to seal the deal.
The President is scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen early
Friday morning local time.
Obama will attend the morning plenary session of the
United Nations Climate Change Conference and is expected to
deliver brief address on the issue.
Later in the day, he will hold bilateral meetings with
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and his Brazilian and Russian
counterparts, Lula da Silva and Dmitry Medvedev, respectively.
He would also attend the afternoon plenary session.
No bilateral meeting has been scheduled with the Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, who is also attending the summit.
Subject to negotiations, Obama is expected to leave
Copenhagen the same night.
US officials said progress was being made on the issue
of reporting and verification requirements by China and other
developing countries – now the sticking point of the
negotiation.
In his address to the plenary session, officials said
Obama is expected to stress on renewed US commitment to show
leadership on global warming.
However, he is unlikely to be more specific about
providing funding to poor countries on climate change.
PTI
