Kawaguchi, Pronk to keep seeking U.S. return to Kyoto pact

Kawaguchi, Pronk to keep seeking U.S. return to Kyoto pact

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Environment Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (R) and Jan Pronk, current chief of U.N.-sponsored talks on climate change, talk at the U.N. headquarters April 19. They agreed to continue efforts to bring the United States back to negotiations over the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

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