France To Go on With UN Climate Conference Despite Paris Terror Attacks

"LONDON -- The French government has vowed to push on with the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris this month and will boost security for world leaders following Friday night's deadly terrorist attack.

'It will go ahead with reinforced security measures,' French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters in Vienna. 'This is an absolutely necessary step in the battle against climate change and of course it will take place.'

France will increase police deployment for the talks scheduled to take place at the Le Bourget airfield in the north of Paris between November 30 and December 11.
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The summit is more important now than ever, French Energy Minister Segolene Royale told Le Point magazine: 'If not, terrorism wins,' she said."

Reed Landberg and Ewa Krukowska report for the Sydney Morning Herald November 16, 2015.

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