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UN chief says climate pact must be finalized
By SHINO YUASA,Associated Press Writer AP - Thursday, July 2
TOKYO - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world must agree on a new treaty to curb pollution at a crucial climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December and urged business leaders to join efforts against global warming.
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Ban, who has put climate change among his top priorities, said he would mobilize "every effort" to reach an agreement at the U.N. meeting to adopt an ambitious global treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
"We must seal the deal in Copenhagen in December this year," the U.N. chief told a group of Japanese business leaders.
"It will be a moment of truth in Copenhagen whether we will set ourselves on course for disaster by taking a business as usual attitude or we will find the path of sustainable green growth," he said. "We know the answer. We must take the course of sustainable green growth."
Ban is on a three-day trip to Japan before heading to Myanmar on Friday. The U.N. chief will hold talks with Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso later Wednesday.
The two leaders will likely discuss Ban's upcoming visit to the military-ruled country _ where opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been in detention for more than 13 of the past 19 years, mostly under house arrest _ as well as North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.
On climate change, Ban told Japanese business leaders that they should do more to help the world reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Your role is extremely, crucially, important. I count on your leadership," Ban said.
Japan, the world's fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, announced in June a new target to cut its emissions 15 percent from its 2005 level by 2020.
Aso said the new target matches the levels pledged by the European Union and the United States.
On Tuesday, Ban urged Myanmar's ruling junta to release its political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi.
When he met students at the University of Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, he warned of the obstacles he expected to face during his second official visit to the Southeast Asian country.
"First of all, the leaders are not accessible. It's very difficult to communicate with them," he told the campus crowd in a reply to students' questions. "My forthcoming visit ... will be in a sense a very challenging one."
The Nobel Peace laureate is being held in Myanmar's Insein prison where she is being tried for violating the terms of her house arrest after an uninvited American man swam to her closely guarded lakeside home in Yangon in May and stayed two days.
Ban is set to arrive in Yangon _ Myanmar's commercial capital _ the same day Suu Kyi's trial resumes.
The proceedings have drawn outrage from world leaders and human rights groups who say the junta is using the incident as an excuse to keep the 64-year-old Suu Kyi behind bars through elections scheduled for 2010. She faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
The U.N. chief _ who is scheduled to meet with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe _ said he would use the trip to convey the concerns of the international community.
But he did not say whether he would meet Suu Kyi.
The U.N. chief leaves for Singapore Thursday then will go to Myanmar.
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