尽管会议预备阶段经过曲折的谈判，但这并不能促进有关温室气体排放的一篮子合法协定的达成。
Despite tortuous negotiations in the run-up to the meeting, a binding legal agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions will not be struck.
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“这对债权人似乎很残忍，但通常是预备谈判阶段的主题”，富尔德律师事务所（Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer，一家公司法律师事务所）巴黎办公室的阿兰•马森（Alan Mason）说。
“It looks brutal to creditors but this is often the subject of pre-negotiation,” says Alan Mason of the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, a corporate-law firm.
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