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Australian government signs Kyoto ratification

CANBERRA
Mon Dec 3, 2007 12:54am EST
(Front row L-R) Wayne Swan, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Governor General Major-General Michael Jeffery, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, (back row L-R) Jenny Macklin, Joel Fitzgibbon and Nicola Roxon pose for photographers at the Government House in Canberra December 3, 2007, after the new Labor government was sworn in at a ceremony. Rudd was sworn in as prime minister on Monday, promising to urgently sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But Rudd said that the country was likely to miss its Kyoto target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Postles

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's new Labor government signed documents to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Monday within hours of being sworn into power, ending Australia's long-held opposition to the global climate pact.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who will attend the United Nations climate talks in Bali next week, said the move was the first official act of his new government, which won power after 11 years of conservative rule on November 24.

(Reporting by James Grubel)
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