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Johannesburg - Minister of international relations Maite
Nkoana-Mashabane expressed satisfaction with the outcomes reached by the 17th
United Nations Conference of Parties (Cop17) early on Sunday morning.
"Our intention with the Indaba was to restore trust in
the multilateral system and to enshrined transparency and inclusively within
our Party driven process," she said in a speech planned for delivery in
Durban.
Nkoana-Mashabane thanked the delegates for the hard work and
effort made throughout the conference - which was scheduled to end on Friday -
and praised the progress made on several key issues during her closing remarks
made at 5.10am.
The talks ran into overtime and her speech on Sunday morning
marked the end of the 14 days of deliberation.
An amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, decisions regarding
life-cycle assessment, the implementation of the Green Climate Fund and the
future of the climate change regime were among the resolutions reached.
The talks yielded a roadmap aimed at enforcing a legal
framework to enforce carbon emission cuts from major greenhouse gas emitters.
French news agency AFP reported that should this framework
be approved in 2015, it would be enforced by 2020.
The next Conference of Parties (Cop18) would be chaired and hosted by Qatar between November 26 and December 8 next year.
