65 world leaders confirmed for UN Copenhagen climate meet: Danish PM

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65 world leaders confirmed for UN Copenhagen climate meet: Danish PM*

by Staff Writers
Copenhagen (AFP) Nov 23, 2009

Sixty-five world leaders have so far confirmed they will attend the UN
Copenhagen climate summit next month, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke
Rasmussen said Sunday.

Leaders from Brazil, Germany, France, Britain and Australia are among
those who have "responded positively" to the invite, Rasmussen said
during his party's annual conference in the central city of Odense.

Other leaders had also given positive signs they would attend, even if
they had not yet confirmed officially, Rasmussen added.

"This shows that heads of state and government are ready to fly in," the
premier said.

They had realised "the political momentum is pointing towards
Copenhagen" as the place where an ambitious climate deal could be
struck, he added.

On November 12, the Danish prime minister invited the 191 other world
leaders from United Nations member states to participate in the key
talks which run from December 7-18 in Copenhagen.

World leaders will try at the summit to thrash out a global treaty on
tackling climate change to replace the Kyoto Protocol, whose obligations
to cut carbon emissions expire in 2012.