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DATE: FRIDAY, February 15, 1991                   TAG: 9102150676
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: CHANTILLY                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. AGREES TO TALKS ON EMISSIONS LIMITS

Fulfilling a promise it made almost two weeks ago, the United States said Thursday that it would negotiate limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases thought by scientists to cause global warming.

The United States also said it would consider providing financial and technical assistance to less developed nations that will be asked to halt the cutting of their rain forests and take other actions to curb the threat from rising temperatures around the world. Some of the actions could harm their economies.

The U.S. position, agreed to by the White House in the final hours of an international conference here, set the stage for delegates from more than 100 nations to ratify a pact that establishes guidelines for negotiating a treaty to respond to the threat from global warming.

The international conference was the first of four to be held around the world before a meeting to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 to consider a treaty to reduce the threat from global warming. -The New York Times 


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