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...best you can say they've agreed to disagree. The atmosphere of the talks was positive, by all accounts, and they're all emphasizing the "indispensable partnership" between Europe and the U.S. But each side was never going to convince the other to change its view of the Kyoto Accord, nor would it have been politically productive for President Bush to try and convince the Europeans to change their position...
...defense, where the President was asking the Europeans to sign onto a very vague concept - the U.S. is saying there is a threat out there; it wants to spend all this money developing a system to counter that threat, and it simply wants the Europeans to accept this. But Kyoto is different: The details are already there, and we know exactly what would be expected from the Americans, and it would cost America a considerable chunk of money to comply. So Bush's position remains no Kyoto, and the Europeans insist on going ahead...
...Monday, the President announced new research initiatives and reiterated his complaint that Kyoto's mandatory cuts don't cover the developing world. The Europeans are going to see the latest initiative as a fig leaf, and they're not impressed by the argument over developing countries - after all, the problem today is primarily a result of a century of economic activity, most of it in the industrialized world. The European position, essentially, is that "We made most of this mess; we must take the lead in cleaning it up." The Kyoto framers planned to bring the developing world into...
...have to feel sorry for Bush, of course, because he has, to some extent, been set up. The Clinton administration had participated in Kyoto talks from the beginning, but had no intention of actually putting the treaty before the Senate. And while Clinton never flatly rejected Kyoto, his negotiating positions were essentially attempts to sidestep mandatory emission cuts...
...Carney: Yes, the level of indignation is far higher the Bush administration's rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what the Europeans see as its cavalier attitude to global warming than there is on missile defense. There's something in missile defense for these countries, but they can see no upside at all in Bush administration's position on global warming...