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Politics › U.N. chief welcomes Hatoyama's climate pledge

Source: Japan Today

Okinawa : Japan | 2 months ago

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Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday welcomed new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s pledge on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. ‘‘That will be a very good example by one of the biggest emitters and one of the largest economic powers in the world,’’ the U.N. chief...

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