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Serbia will give full contribution to minimise consequences of climate changes

Belgrade, 20 November 2009

Minister of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic stated that Serbia is ready for an active role at the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, adding that it will give its full contribution to minimising their harmful effects.

Oliver Dulic

At a joint press conference, held with UN Special Envoy for Climate Change Srgjan Kerim, Dulic said that Serbia is ready to accept any obligations adopted at the conference, but noted that it needs financial assistance and the transfer of technologies.

It was agreed that Southeast European countries should appear together at the Conference scheduled for December 11–18 in Copenhagen, Dulic said.

He stressed that next week Serbia’s negotiating position will be defined in detail, although it is already known that it will be presented at the Conference by a highest level delegation, led by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic.

The Minister said that Serbia is a regional leader in the fight against climate change and it will give its best to minimise the harmful effects of these changes in various areas, including agriculture, energy and human health.

Srgjan Kerim

Kerim welcomed the Serbian government’s efforts to promote UN values, especially in the complex and delicate issue of climate change. He recalled that today the UN marks the Universal Children’s Day established 20 years ago, adding that it is our duty to leave behind us a planet on which every child in the world will have a normal and dignified life. According to him, at the Copenhagen Conference an agreement on reducing harmful gas emissions by 50% must be reached, adding that they must make sure that the temperature on the planet does not increase by more than 1–2 degrees. If we fail to reach such an agreement, we will face a catastrophe which threatens to wipe 45 UN countries off the face of the Earth due to the rise in the sea level, Kerim warned.