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1st LD: Paris climate conference extended by one day to Saturday

Xinhua, December 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

PARIS, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) - The final version of a deal to combat global warming should be presented Saturday early morning by Laurent Fabius, French Foreign Minister and president of the COP21, to negotiators from the 196 Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a spokesperson of Fabius told Xinhua early Friday morning.

"The final version should be presented early Saturday morning in order to be adopted in the middle of the day," he said.

"Today the presidency will consult the groups, and a new text will be presented early morning Saturday for final adoption," said the spokesperson.

On Wednesday, Fabius presented a text for a global climate agreement as a basis for further negotiations among countries in the next 48 hours.

The document, including a core agreement and accompanying decisions, runs to 29 pages, much shorter than the 43-page version that countries reached last Saturday. Endi