Bella Center is now different. With the high-level segment arriving, ministers are spotted everywhere. With entering the ninth day of negotiations, the time pressure is bigger than ever before. With delays of plenaries and even a move of the COP meeting, parties are frustrated and they are not alone. When entering the plenary hall this morning, tables were full of empty bottles and trash, showing that negotiators had been here all night, some going home at 07:00 this morning. In the AWG-KP
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meeting last night, the President of that group, John Ashe (Antigua and Bermuda) tried to explain to parties that they have to present a draft to the high-level segment. Brazil, India, Algeria and many others explained that they cannot present anything, because they don’t have anything to present. Some parts of the draft are even left blank. Only one word to explain the setting of that meeting: FRUSTRATION.
Being a problem with the scheduling of the COP meeting that should had taken place at 10 AM, but was left out, there is now a question wheather they will proceed with the high-level segment or if they will discuss these isssues further. The President of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, pointed out that time doesn’t permit these points of order, they must proceed with negotiations. The danish prime minister, the president of that meeting said, that they understand the points of orders and they will take them into considerations, but they have to proceed with the programme. We’ll see what happens during the day. The clock is ticking.
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