YUDHOYONO ASKS WORLD TO DO THEIR BEST FOR COPENHAGEN MEETING

Singapore, Nov 15 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appealed on Sunday to the world community to do their utmost to ensure next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen will achieve concrete and optimum results.

Yudhoyono made the appeal at a breakfast meeting with a number of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders at Shangri-La Hotel here, presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said.

"There has been concern that the Copenhagen meeting may not produce the desired agreement," Dino said.

The current direction of the meeting was to achieve a politically-binding agreement, he said.

"So the joint agreement of the world leaders will be broken down in further negotiations. So the direction is to achieve a more condensed document instead of 200-page, detailed one," he said.

But it was still difficult to arrive at such agreement in the absence of a consensus among the world leaders, he said.

"The big question is an agreement between advanced countries and developing nations, particularly between the United States and the large countries such as India and China. That is the key," he said.

President Yudhoyono renewed his call for the developed countries to stay in the front-line while at the same time the developing countries must do more, Dino said.

"I whould like to emphasize here that the President did not speak in rhetoric. He has already unveiled Indonesia's target of reducing (greenhouse gas) emissions by 26 percent by 2020," he said.
The Copenhagen meeting is seen by many as a last resort to agree on painful measures needed to ease the pace of climate change.

The aim of the U.N. meeting is not only to set ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases, but also raise funds to help poor
countries tackle global warming.