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'Had I been there, my presidency would have been over before it began,' Van Rompuy told the US diplomat on Copenhagen (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Cablegate: Van Rompuy expects Cancun talks to fail

As UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, approach the half-way point this weekend (4-5 December), a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks has revealed that European Council President Herman Van Rompuy had already "given up" on the multilateral meeting as far back as one year ago.

In a discussion with US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman on 23 December 2009, Mr Van Rompuy reportedly said the Mexican...

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'Had I been there, my presidency would have been over before it began,' Van Rompuy told the US diplomat on Copenhagen (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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