He said it permitted them to avoid the legally binding targets and international supervision proposed by developed countries.

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He says the least developed countries need to cut dependence on commodities and manufacture products for export.

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F.C.C.Chairman Julius Genachowski says the service available is slow and costly compared with other developed countries.

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"We need both the developed world and the developing countries to come together and to give and support a global initiative in the war against hunger."

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A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said developed countries did not perform well at the talks.

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It also vetoed eighty-percent cuts by developed countries by the middle of the century.

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De Boer added that African countries and other less developed nations say nobody's targets are good enough at the moment.

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"It is largely a consequence of 150 years of industrialization in the major developed countries of the world."

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Cape Verde graduated from the United Nations' list of least developed countries in 2007, and joined the World Trade Organization last year.

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Jiang says the funds pledged by developed nations so far still fall short of what developing countries expected.

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The United States and other developed countries want India to reduce its share of carbon emissions, which is currently about four percent.

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But senior government researcher Aya Abe says Japan has the fourth-highest rate of poverty among developed countries.

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Health officials in New York say the maternal mortality rate in the United States itself rivals that of poorer developed countries like Singapore and Ireland.

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The pan-African meeting is expected to call for substantial financial support from the developed world to help developing countries to adjust to a non-carbon-based economy.

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He says the developed world needs reliable weather information from developing countries and vice-versa.

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"China,after having been one of the world's strongest and most developed countries, went through a period of relative decline and relatively being pushed around by other countries."

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He agrees with Fisher that the tradition of non profits in developed countries giving tools and equipment to poor people in third world countries -- is a poor model.

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India and China have been vocal in demanding that rich, developed countries, such as the United States, take the lead in cutting carbon emissions, which exceed theirs on a per capita basis.

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"Because cardiovascular death is the number one cause of death in the world, not just in developed countries, but throughout the world, the role that air pollutants play on this has a tremendous effect on overall world mortality."

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Mr.Ban said he is encouraged that negotiations are proceeding well in Copenhagen,and he hopes the summit can achieve, among other things, ambitious mitigation targets for developed countries and their commitments of financial support to assist developing countries adapt to the impact of global warming.

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