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Wen on whirlwind diplomacy over climate in Copenhagen

By Fu Jing (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-17 07:01

COPENHAGEN: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to hold last-ditch talks today with state leaders from around 10 countries to coordinate their stances before the final-day of the two-week UN climate change conference.

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So far the countries include Brazil, Denmark, Maldives, Britain and Germany. UN Secretary-General Ban Kim-moon is on the meeting list but the talks between Wen and the US president is still not finalized.

Wen has pledged to move forward the agenda of heated climate change negotiation with the "utmost sincerity and determination" on the flight to Copenhagen.

He admitted that there are still several focused problems mainly between the developed countries and developing blocs and they are obstacles of the negotiations ahead.

"However, Chinese government and me are coming with utmost sincerity and determination to move the agenda forward," said Wen.

Chinese government hopes to achieve a fair, reasonable balanced, achievable agreement after final efforts of 110 world leaders and their delegations in Copenhagen.

To achieve the goal, Wen has launched massive telephone diplomacy in Beijing since the beginning of last week and up to 10 world leaders have already coordinated climate change stances with Wen.