Ali bin Ibrahim Alnaimi, the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed the endeavors of his country in contributing to the international efforts to protect the world environment. In a key speech before the 10th conference of the Contracting Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Buenos Aires yesterday under the theme "Policies to confront Climatic Changes and their Impact", Alnaimi urged all member countries of the agreement to strictly implement the protocols and their appendices. In this connection, he cautioned the selective way followed by some members rather than comprehensive and complete applying of their commitments. He said the member states of the First Appendix (industrial countries) have committed themselves to work to alleviate the negative impacts which harm the developing countries' economies vastly depending on the exportation of fossil fuel. --More 2148 Local Time 1848 GMT
