Roundtable at the EU-LAC Foundation - Minister Oquist explains the position of Nicaragua in the negotiations on Climate Change

The Minister Private Secretary of National Policies in Nicaragua, Paul Oquist, took the opportunity of his working visit to Germany to visit the EU-LAC Foundation and participate in a roundtable on Climate Change negotiations co-organised with Nicaragua's Embassy in Berlin.

Mr. Oquist, which already represented his country at the failed Copenhagen Conference in 2009, shared with students from the University of Hamburg and other experts on the topic, some intricacies of the negotiations that once again will be tested in December, during the forthcoming Confeence of the Parts, the  so-called COP21, in Lima.

The Minister, great expert of the United Nations system, where he has held important roles, advocated the need to reach an credible pact in terms of objectives and implementation mechanisms and considered premature to foresee what will happen in Paris by 2015.