Conference presidency changes hands as world leaders begin to arrive in Denmark
By Sun Xiaohua | China Daily | Updated: 2009-12-17 08:02
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From left: Outgoing COP15 president Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN climate chief Yvo de Boer address a news conference this week. Reuters |
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen will replace Minister Connie Hedegaard and take the chair as president of the Conference of Parties from the beginning of the High-Level Segment of the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Rasmussen said yesterday.
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