Moscow Wavers on Kyoto Protocol Decision.

From: The Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: December 4, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott

Dec. 4--Russia yesterday cooled talk that it would not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to slow global warming.

"We are moving toward ratification," Deputy Economy Minister Mukhamed Tsikanov said at a news conference in Moscow.

The statement came just one day after an adviser to President Vladimir Putin said Russia would not ratify the pact because it would restrict economic growth.

The Kyoto Protocol is a U.N.-brokered agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Most scientists believe the gases trap heat in the atmosphere and ...

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