Protesters try to disrupt UN climate talks
AP | HT Correspondent, Copenhagen
Dec 16, 2009 05:09 PM IST
Hundreds of protesters are marching toward the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in an attempt to disrupt talks on a new global warming deal. Protesters say they want to take over the global conference and turn it into a "people's assembly," Danish police said.
Danish police say hundreds of protesters are marching toward the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in an attempt to disrupt talks on a new global warming deal. Protesters say they want to take over the global conference and turn it into a "people's assembly."
Police officers are trying to keep the demonstrators from accessing the Bella Center, where envoys from 193 nations are negotiating a pact to curb global warming.
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A separate group of activists from Friends of Earth are staging a sit-in protest outside the security area because they are not being allowed into the conference.
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