CLIMATE-LD DRAMA 2

With hopes fading of a summit draft, infact, it was a
dramatic turn of events Friday night, which led to a
breakthrough when all seemed lost.

Later, US officials said, "The only surprise we had, in
all our history was... that in that room wasn't just the
Chinese having a meeting... but all four countries that we had
been trying to arrange meetings with were indeed all in the
same room... The President's viewpoint is, I wanted to see
them all and now is our chance".
Apprehending that the Copenhagen Summit has almost headed
towards a dead end, Obama postponed his scheduled departure
for the US and told his advance team that he wanted to meet
the Chinese premier separately; followed by a joint meeting
with the Indian, Brazilian and South African leaders.
The Chinese team, initially reluctant, told the White
House officials that most of the team were already on the
airport, while Wen was in his hotel, getting ready to leave.
This happened around 4 pm local time.
When they called Brazil, the White House was told by the
side that it would hold no meeting without India. Zuma agreed
for the meeting as he did not have the latest information
about Singh, who was also getting ready to leave.
Following a flurry of phonecalls, the four leaders were
again at the Bella Centre discussing their strategy for their
meeting with Obama. Singh, who was at his hotel, had driven to
the venue. MORE PTI SKU
ANU


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