Official representatives of Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Dominica warned that if this position of the developed countries continues, the ALBA is not willing to agree on any other issue at these negotiations. Venezuelan representative at the COP, Claudia Salerno, said at the press conference that the developed countries that are blocking the Protocol “are not even five”, but all ALBA representatives chose not to say which those countries are, to preserve the multilateral framework of the negotiations. However, it was publically reported that Japan rejects the Protocol, and the other three countries that have had similar positions before this COP are Canada, Russia and Australia.

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