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Friday 11 Dec 2015 - 16:30 Makkah mean time-29-2-1437
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Paris, (IINA) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that the UN Climate Conference in Paris was extended by one day and that it is expected to end on Saturday, DPA reported.
Fabius said he would be "in a position" to present a "proposed draft of a final text" at some stage Friday, according to an AFP report. "We are extremely close to the objective", he was reported as saying, adding that talks were going on all night.
The draft text was originally due to be presented Thursday afternoon, before the scheduled last day of the COP 21 meeting on Friday. The new agreement would aim at limiting the average global temperature rise to 2 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial norms. There is also a reference to a long-term vision of 1.5 degrees, demanded by small island nations that face rising sea levels.
The climate agreement is to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020. The United States, which has played a crucial role in the build-up to the Paris talks, had boycotted Kyoto because its economic rival, China, was exempted.
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