U.S. Displeased with state of LCA text
Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Ben Jervey in U.S.A., bits
In the LCA group (now headed up by Hedegaard, if my intel is accurate?!) that ended just now, the US negotiatiors raised some serious concerns about the structure of the document. It’s a summary of a number of things, argued Jonathan Pershing, but there are so many alternative appendices that it’s totally unrealistic to bring all these together as one LCA text.
Translation: we’ve got a bunch of different piles of paper, and we can’t just stack them together and call them the final LCA text to pass off to our Ministers and Heads of State.
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