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"The European Union’s measures and positions on this issue are well documented, especially as a result of the extensive monitoring by the media of the most recent comments and the extensive bilateral consultations carried out by the Council. The Council scarcely needs to remind you that the European Community and its Member States have played, and continue to play, a very active role in the international negotiations on climate change. In its conclusions, the Council has time after time confirmed it commitment to reaching an agreement at the next and Sixth Conference of the Parties to safeguarding the Kyoto Protocol’s environmental integrity and to creating conditions for its ratification and entry into force by 2002 at the latest. It certainly does not need to be repeated that the Council sticks by both its policy on climate change and these commitments.
The European Council in Stockholm in March 2001 again confirmed its strong commitment to the Kyoto Protocol as the basis for the international work on reducing emissions. The European Council called upon all the negotiating partners to contribute constructively to reaching an agreement on the more specific conditions for implementing the Kyoto Protocol and facilitating a successful result.
The Council still stands by its belief in the Kyoto Protocol and the Kyoto process.
Extensive consultation with other parties has been carried out by the troika, which has met the Canadians, the Iranians – who currently hold the Presidency of the Group of 77 – the Russians, the Chinese and the Japanese in order to garner support for the Kyoto process and for the efforts made by the President of the Conference of the Parties, the Dutch Minister for the Environment, Mr Pronk. Further bilateral negotiations on the same theme will, of course, take place before the second round of the Sixth Conference of the Parties in Bonn this summer. The European Union has also made known its commitment to proceeding further with the preparations for ratification by no later than 2002, even if the United States decides not to participate. The EU’s direct strategy, therefore, involves securing sufficient support for the continued success of the Kyoto process, in spite of the United States’s current position.
Through a number of high-level representatives, including the Swedish Minister for the Environment, Mr Larsson, and the Commissioner for the Environment, Mrs Wallström, the European Union has also lost no time in making its attitude clear to the new administration in Washington.
The most important objective right now is to get the United States involved in the Kyoto process again. The EU emphasises that the climate issue is an important part of the transatlantic relationship and calls upon the United States to make a constructive contribution to this process."@en1
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