Bella center is a small representation of the
world and the mankind. Countries cooperating and arguing, people sharing their
fears, dreams, hopes, interests or hates. Economic interests surrounding most
of the conversations. Politicians, activists, journalist, celebrities,
students, policemen, waiters, cleaners, etc., who care or not about the final
result of the Conference.
In the world there also queues, as those since
Monday are blocking the Bella
Center, with participants
just arriving being forced to spend between six to eight hours in registration
lines at 0°C.
At this stage of the Conference the total number of people requesting
accreditation had hit more than 40,000, thus far exceeding the 15,000 capacity
of the convention center, so entrance limitations have just started and more
are expected for the high-level segment set to begin on Wednesday. Mayor
restrictions will be applied to NGOs which reacted angrily to this and
complained about being excluded from the process breaking one of the main
principles repeated during the conference, “accountability, transparence and
the role constructive and vital of civil society.”
Meanwhile, negotiations continue with the same
pattern as the days before, with fear, mistrust and suspicion having come to
rule – particularly between industrialized and developing countries.
Substantive work on the long-term cooperative action (LCA) issues has been
suspended at different stages due to the “deadlock” between these two main blocks.
With Ministers already involved in negotiations,
protests raised again among developing countries as only LCA issues were to be
discussed at the ministerial level while Kyoto Protocol commitments by develop
countries were not planned to have enough attention at the ministerial level.
This was solved by the presidency leading to an agreement to hold informal
consultations on “crunch issues” under both negotiations tracks. “It looks like
rich countries wanted to wash their hands with regard their commitments”
criticized a delegate of the African Union.
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