Staff writer
Ministerial-level officials from major industrialized and developing countries will hold informal talks in Tokyo on Sept. 17 and 18 in a bid to find common ground on some divisive environmental issues, government officials said Monday.
The meeting will precede a high-profile international conference on climate change by about two months. Among about two-dozen countries expected to attend the Tokyo meeting are the United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, the officials said.
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