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November 30, 2015

Your Excellency President Hollande,
Distinguished Colleagues,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,

Today, we are gathered in Paris for the opening ceremony of the
United Nations Climate Change Conference. Our very presence here
shows that the efforts of humankind to address climate change and
seek a better future cannot be thwarted by terrorism. Let me take this
opportunity to express my sincere condolences to the French people, as
well as my gratitude to President Hollande and the French government
for their meticulous preparations for this conference.
Thanks to the joint efforts of all parties since the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came into
effect over 20 years ago, global action on climate change has made
strong progress. However, there are still numerous difficulties and
challenges. This Paris Conference has thus been convened with the
aims of strengthening implementation of the UNFCCC, of reaching a
comprehensive, balanced, ambitious, and binding agreement on climate
change, of finding equitable, reasonable, and effective global solutions
to climate change, and of exploring sustainable development pathways
and governance models for humankind. As French writer Victor Hugo
once observed, “Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.”

Speech at the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on
China-Africa Cooperation.

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