African nations to rejoin Copenhagen talks

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1 of 8. People warm up before the start of a march with several hundred protesters in Copenhagen December 14, 2009. Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, which lasts from December 7 until December 18.

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COPENHAGEN | Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:54am EST

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - African nations said they would return to Copenhagen climate talks on Monday, allowing the negotiations to resume, after winning assurances that the conference put more focus on extending the existing Kyoto Protocol. "We're going back," Pa Ousman Jarju from the delegation of Gambia, told Reuters. The protest held up the talks that had been due to start at 1030 GMT.

(Reporting by Alister Doyle, writing by Gerard Wynn)

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