newsitems Participants to UNO Copenhagen Climate Change Conference blocked by Extreme Weather phenomena
Participants to UNO Copenhagen Climate Change Conference blocked by Extreme Weather phenomena
* Copenhagen/Angelo Marcopolo/- Rare intensity Snowstorms unexpectedly blocked several participants to UNO's Summit on the Climate at Copenhagen, while also USA's coasts were reportedly hardly hit by similar Extreme Weather phenomena said to be provoked by Climate Change.
Not only flights for Africa, but also flghts to Amsterdam, or for Germany, from Berlin to the South (f.ex. Frankfurt) were cancelled, as well as for Manchester (UK), Strasbourg, Lyon and Paris (France), etc.
And this was not the end of the story : F.ex. Copenhagen - Strasbourg Airflight booked by "EuroFora" was first cancelled, and afterwards, another similar, remplacement fiight was hindered to land in Strasbourg because too much snow had blocked the landing area, obliging the plane to head towards Lyon, before it runs out of fuel...
Among various participants to the UNFCCC were CoE Officials, MPs, Experts, NGOs, Journalists (as "EuroFora"), etc, and even some representatives of the Swedish EU Presidency, including f.ex. the wife of the Swedish Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the CoE, who had just chaired the Paneuropean Organization in 2008 before Sweden takes over in 2009 the EU chair.
But apparently UNO's Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, who had initially scheduled to remain at Copenhagen until Monday, 21 December 2009, managed to arrive earlier at New York, and plans to give a Press Conference on Monday morning, N.Y. local time, his new Spokesman, Martin Nesirsky told "EuroFora". (NDLR ! For earlier Statements by UNO Secretary General's s New Spokesman, to "EuroFora", see also : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/osceberlin.html ).
Meanwhile, Copenhaqen's famous symbol : the little mermaid, from Andersen's poems and legends, was full of snow, looking straight ahead to an icy penguin statue, while industrial pollution at the background unfortunately continued to spoil the beatiful landscape..
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EU-educated charming young Chinese presence started to be felt in Council of Europe's corridors in Strasbourg at the aftermath of an Historic Resolution adopted by its Parliamentary Assembly in favor of opening the possibility to give China a special "Status" in the PanEuropean Organization.
- "My proposal to offer to China an official status as "Observer", in short term, under conditions, was welcomed" by the CoE : "The road to Dialogue between China and the CoE has now been opened", declared after Strasbourg's debates and votes the Head of France's delegation, MEP Jean-Claude Mignon.
"Neither complacency, nor a mere condamnation of China", but a "wise approach of a political issue of great importance", advised Mignon to all those who'd either overload claims on Democracy, Human Rights or Minorities, or close their eyes to anything, there as elsewhere... A balance which was not exactly followed during debates, contrary to Mignon's personal stance, which appeared rather even-handed.
China is the only UNO Security Council permanent member which has not yet any status at the CoE, being still obliged to be represented in Strasbourg by a General Consul : USA and Canada, even Japan and .. Mexico, have already got a special Status at the CoE, following Strasbourg's decision, back in 1995, to counter-balance the accession of Russia (1996) by creating special links to traditional "Western-world" allies.
All former "Socialist" Eastern European countries started to have relations whith the CoE through its former sector on Culture and Education, before becoming full Members of Strasbourg's paneuropean organization. Speculations were unfolding recently about establishing a probable concrete link with China through the topical issue of anti-doping in Sport, on the occasion of the 2008 Olympic games.
More spectacular, a meeting co-organized a few years ago in Strasbourg, by EuroFora and the International Space University between EU Parliament's long-time Rapporteur for EU's Satellite Navigation system "GALILEO", German MEP Brigitte Langenhagen, and a group of postgraduate students, attracted special interest from Chinese experts, and was followed, in less than a month, by the anouncement of China's intention to support EU's GALILEO project with a participation of 200 million €.
Compared to that, revendications of .. "Turkish" Minorities, by Turkish MEPs, this week in Strasbourg, spreading through a wide area extended ...from Greece up to China, appeared less worrying, than pittoresque...
Meanwhile, France's political will to start involving China and other important countries in European and Global affairs was due to be raised also at the forthcoming G-8 Summit in Japan by President Nicolas SARKOZY, (NDLR : confirmed on July 5)