The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stressed its keenness to join the international community in efforts to confront climate change based on fairness and equality without burdening oil with the measures that will be adopted in the agreement which will possibly be signed by the end of next year as the kingdom and many other developing nations mainly depend on oil. The kingdom reiterated efforts to spread the use of technological alternatives and introduce laws to cut emissions. The statements were made in the kingdom's speech delivered today by Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Alnaimi, the head of the Saudi delegation to the meetings of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland. The minister cited four points for the forthcoming agreement to take into account: 1- It must be based on the principles of the current framework agreement on climate change, particularly sharing the joint responsibility between advanced and developing countries. 2- It should be comprehensive for all kinds of greenhouse gases and all economic sectors without prejudice for one on another. 3- It should not lead to any imbalance on international trade through adopting protective policies against other fossil fuel, particularly oil products. 4-It should not include amendments of the first and second annexes of the current agreement as we are not going to accept re-negotiating it.
