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International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. Picture: Jacoline Prinsloo
Durban - South Africa is ready to host the United Nations Climate Change conference COP17, International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Friday.
“We are working closely with the city of Durban and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to ensure that we host an international event that meets UN requirements,” she told reporters on Friday.
She said her department had worked closely with the president of the COP Mexico to prepare for the event.
“We have arranged a leaders' dialogue on climate change on the margins of the UN general assembly to get guidance from heads of states and government.”
COP 17 will be held in Durban from November 28 to December 9.
The minister said more than 6000 hotel rooms had been booked and paid for.
“The layout for the conference at the International Convection Centre and the Durban Exhibition Centre has been finalised.”
Nkoana Mashabane said about 20,000 people would travel to South Africa to attend the conference, and there would be a free visa entry for accredited delegates. - Sapa
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Get Real, wrote
They have no hope of signing any binding agreement. The US has finally wised up to this wealth redistribution scam that flies under the facade of science. Without the US on board the only thing they are achieving is having a glorified holiday at someone else's expense while laying down a carpet of CO2 in the atmosphere on the planes they come in on.
Warren, wrote
And so they will fly in in aproximately 50 Boeing 747's burning all that fuel, so they can sit and say we have global warming....... Why does this not make sense?
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