Gunny
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By THOMAS FULLER and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: December 14, 2007
NUSA DUA, Indonesia Amid growing frustration with the United States over deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks proposed by the Bush administration in Hawaii next month.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia at climate talks in Bali on Thursday.
Humberto Rosa, the chief delegate from Portugal, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said the discussions next month would be meaningless if there were no deal at the conference here this week on the resort island of Bali.
Germanys environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, told reporters, No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting. He was referring to the formal name of the proposed American-sponsored talks.
The goal of the Bali meeting, which is being attended by delegates from 190 countries and which is scheduled to end Friday, is to reach agreement on a plan for a future deal to reduce greenhouse gases.
The escalating bitterness between the European Union and the United States came as former Vice President Al Gore told delegates in a speech that My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali.
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What an absolutely pathetic crock this is. If "the world" doesn't need us, then WTF are they whining about? We're damned if we do and damned if we don't.
Piss on all of 'em.