“The EU is ready for an agreement but not at any cost. It is time to really conclude this vital agreement,” he said during an improvised press point with the Danish Environment Minister Magnus Heunicke.
“If there was a small theater yesterday, there will be many more in the next few days,” warned the Danish minister whose country ensures the Rotary Presidency of the EU, which seemed to confirm the rumors that the European negotiator threatened Monday night to leave the negotiating table of a work group in Geneva.
These negotiations are “extremely difficult,” said Magnus Heunicke, “but the EU is here to achieve an agreement” that is “as ambitious as possible.”
“If we are all in our red lines, an agreement is impossible”
The EU is part of a coalition of “ambitious” countries that wish to achieve a treatise against plastic contamination that provides a reduction and regulation of the production of virgin plastic worldwide, as well as a list of hazardous chemical additives, two measures to which an essentially oil country opposes, as well as representatives of the petrochemical industry, debates observers.
“All countries and also the European Union, we must examine our red lines and see how they could evolve not radically, but see what could change in our red lines,” he added.
“If we are all in our red lines, an agreement is impossible,” he said, asking for “commitments” and “negotiations.”
Other environmental ministers in Geneva are expected during the day to participate in the last days of negotiations, in particular those of Brazil, France, Indonesia, South Africa and Mexico.
Source: BFM TV
