MOSCOW. (Tatiana Sinitsyna, RIA Novosti...

It is an annual conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in a different part of the world each time. For the next 10 days, representatives of 80 countries will be discussing the climate change problem, which has been causing increasing concern, in order to find a way to make the climate more stable.

The main purpose of this year's conference is negotiations: the participants will discuss climate-related issues, exchange opinions, trying to balance different views and work out a common approach. There will be 700 meetings devoted to climate change, which is a truly many-faceted issue. The most important goals of the conference are to develop a long-term strategy for reducing the global emission of greenhouse gases, and to decide on a common approach which should be taken after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

The Kyoto Protocol will come into effect in 2008. Although supported by 161 countries, it still sparks a

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