Noting that they met with John Kerry, the US President's Special Envoy for Climate Change, Turkey's Environment and Urban Development Minister Murat Kurum said they had taken decisive steps in this direction. The Turkish press writes: "Although we have almost no historical responsibility for climate change, we have stated that we have taken more decisive steps than many countries."

He said they had a bilateral meeting with Kerry at the G20 Environment, Climate and Energy ministers meeting. It was stated that many countries have taken more decisive steps in this direction. In addition, during a meeting with Kerry, they reaffirmed their demands to remove from Annex 1 of the UN Climate Change Convention: “We have expressed our support for our just fight. In this context, we stressed that the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding and the Paris Agreement before the 26th Conference of the Parties in Glasgow will accelerate the validity of the Paris Agreement for us.

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