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09/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Putin leaves Kyoto deal in doubt"

SO IS AL-QAIDA GOING TO TARGET RUSSIA NOW?: Russian President Vladimir Putin today refused to throw his support behind the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that his government needed more time to study the deal.

"The government is closely studying and examining this question," Putin told the opening of a five-day World Climate Change Conference in Moscow. "This is part of a complex of difficult and unclear problems. A decision will be taken when this work is finished."

"Russia actively stands for the quickest possible ratification of the Kyoto Protocol," Putin added, but offered no timetable for the process.

Many of the books I've read recently which purport to explain why the world just gosh darned it doesn't like the U.S. say that the Kyoto Protocol partly fuels that anger. I now fully expect airplanes to begin smashing into Red Square and anti-Russian protests in streets across the world.

Read on.