Kingdom's speech on climate change delivered

Poznan, Poland, December 12, SPA -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
stressed its keenness to join the international community in efforts
to confront climate change based on fairness and equality without
burdening oil with the measures that will be adopted in the agreement
which will possibly be signed by the end of next year as the kingdom
and many other developing nations mainly depend on oil.

The kingdom reiterated efforts to spread the use of technological
alternatives and introduce laws to cut emissions.

The statements were made in the kingdom's speech delivered today by
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Alnaimi, the head of
the Saudi delegation to the meetings of the United Nations Climate
Change Conference in Poznan, Poland.

The minister cited four points for the forthcoming agreement to take
into account:
1- It must be based on the principles of the current framework
agreement on climate change, particularly sharing the joint
responsibility between advanced and developing countries.
2- It should be comprehensive for all kinds of greenhouse gases and
all economic sectors without prejudice for one on another.
3- It should not lead to any imbalance on international trade through
adopting protective policies against other fossil fuel, particularly
oil products.
4-It should not include amendments of the first and second annexes of
the current agreement as we are not going to accept re-negotiating
it.

--SPA