African nations will walk out of climate change talks in Copenhagen if their demands, including hefty compensations from the West, are not met, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday.
One of the key demands that the world's poorest continent is making is billions of dollars in compensation to help it cope with the effects of climate change. However a panel representing the continent at the talks is yet to come up with a figure.
"If need be we are prepared to walk out of any negotiations that threatens to be another rape of the continent," said Meles, who leads the panel.
"While we reason with everyone to achieve our objective we are not prepared to rubber stamp any agreement by the powers," he told African officials and experts from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development at a meeting in Addis Ababa. "We will use our numbers to delegitimise any agreement that is not consistent with our minimal position."
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