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Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, speaks during a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010.
Friday, Dec. 10, 2010

Open quoteIf, from here, we send the Kyoto Protocol to the rubbish bin, we are responsible for eco-cide and genocide, because we will be sending many people to their death.Close quote

  • EVO MORALES,
  • President of Bolivia, during discussions at the United Nations conference on climate change in Cancún, Mexico, on the prospect of the frayed 1997 Kyoto Protocol falling apart
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