After a dramatic parade with hundred thousand people and the police and helicopters over the weekend, after the informal negotiations between ministers of different nations, after the influential talks from religious leaders, the second week of COP15 has started.
Something unexpected happened first thing in the morning. The queue for entering Bella Centre has been stopped due to a fault in the security inspection equipment. The people has been waiting outside at a temperature of 1 degree in wind. We did not manage to get on the COP15 bus at 8 30am and it was already 9am when we arrived at Bella Centre. The queue has reached the subway station, with an approximate width of 5m and length of 100m. The entrants were equally treated no matter the type of your passes. Thai officials tried to negotiate with the security but could not get through. The other ministers had to follow the queue too. An American professor behind us has been complaining: "It is a good thing for youth to come in here and learn, but under present conditions, it is ridiculous to have the kids in the Centre and someone really relevant to the negotiations kept out here."
This week, as the senior officials arrive with heads of nations, new passes have been issued for entrance to Bella Centre. This is to limit the number of entrances and ease the chaos in front of Bella Centre, under the condition that their security check equipment will not fail again and again.
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