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Chávez too busy for Amazon climate meeting

Published on 26 November 2009 - 10:41am
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will not attend Thursday’s South American climate meeting in the Brazilian city of Manaus. Mr Chávez says he does not have time.

Eight South American countries straddling the Amazon basin plus France are meeting in Manaus to agree on a “common stance” on saving the Amazon rainforest in the run-up to December’s Copenhagen climate summit.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will attend, as will his French counterpart Nicolas Sarcozy. French Guiana is an overseas department of France which partly lies in the Amazon region.
 


Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
- ANP

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Anonymous 1 December 2009 - 2:20am / URscrewed
Ha ha, Chavez is too busy because he probably read about the exposure of the fraud in the whole "global warming" scheme and he has better things to do than to go and admire the Emperor's New Clothes"....Yes, read about it here, caught red handed trying to doctor the information handed out about "Global warming"> Caught because besides being "Donkeys" they are also STUPID!!! ha ha. Listen to this: http: //link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid20971858001?bclid=22770165001&bctid=52478846001 Ha ha and now read this: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1109/tracinski112409.php3 Global Warming is no more than an attempt to imprison the population of the world, an attempt at global dominance, by none other than the same families that brought you 9-11, Wall Street Crash, and the Trillion dollar "Bailouts" world wide....the same families that brought you "Central Banks", IMF, Federal Reserve and the U.N.

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