US reaches out to China to smooth divisions and negotiations are taken behind closed doors as countries try to secure an agreement by Saturday Barack Obama phoned the Chinese leader,Xi Jinping, in a final ditch effort to thrash out a climate change agreement that can be unveiled at the UN climate talks in Paris on Saturday. As the negotiations ran into overtime – something that has happened at virtually every meeting of the final 20 years – Laurent Fabius, and the French foreign minister called for a cooling off period to allow more high level lobbying behind closed doors. Fabius build off planned public plenary sessions,which risk being volatile, and gave the floor over to closed meetings in a final push for an agreement.
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Source: theguardian.com