South Africa likens draft UN climate deal to apartheid
South Africa on Monday criticized a draft United Nations accord on fighting climate change as a form of "apartheid" against developing nations. "It is just like apartheid," Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, South Africa's delegate who speaks on behalf of the main grouping of more than 130 developing nations and China, told the meeting. "We find ourselves in a position where in essence we are disenfranchised," she said, saying views of the poor had been ignored. South Africa's apartheid system was overthrown in 1994 when Nelson Mandela became the nation's first black president.
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