The U.N.climate change talks opened Monday with warnings that time was running out on reaching a deal.
VOA: standard.2009.09.28
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg,said Friday his party and the Conservatives are working "flat out" in order to come to a deal.
VOA: standard.2010.05.10
Delegates have been in Barcelona all week to hash out a plan that would pave the way for 192 nations to sign a legally binding international climate deal next month.
VOA: standard.2009.11.06
The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
VOA: standard.2009.11.04
In a brief statement to reporters after the summit, Mr.Obama did not spell out a specific strategy designed to secure agreement, but European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso was upbeat that a deal could be struck.
VOA: standard.2009.11.03
"This undermines the peace process." Mitchell has been trying to work out a deal that would lead to a three-way meeting next week with U.S.President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the U.N.General Assembly in New York.
VOA: standard.2009.09.16
I mean,how can we say that we want Karzai to do something about his brother's alleged narcotics activities, while apparently the CIA has been paying the same brother?" Former U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann tells VOA he believes President Karzai to be a decent man, but points out that he does not have a great deal of actual power outside of Kabul and has to be very careful about alienating some people.
VOA: standard.2009.11.17
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