But on September 19th the head of a delegation from the European Parliament said that he had secured from Mr Maroni an undertaking it would not be invoked for EU citizens.
But the head of Eritrea's delegation, a country where only 28 elephants remain, was of the opposite opinion.
Even at one point, the head of the US delegation, Harlan Watson, walked out of a meeting, eventually returned and did double back a little bit and said finally that the US would participate in some informal discussions in the future about how to find opportunities to curb warming.
"Unfortunately, politics seem to have overtaken science, " Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the head of the U.S. delegation to the Bangkok conference, said in a statement.
"We hope Mr. Alvarez will soon be reunited with his family, " Jordi Raich, head of the ICRC delegation in Colombia, said in a statement.
The head of the Kuwaiti delegation, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, was said to have applauded a summit speech delivered by his Iraqi counterpart Ezzat Ibrahim.
During the official launch of the face-to-face negotiations in Norway, Farc delegation head Ivan Marquez renewed calls for a ceasefire.
"We are deeply concerned by these events, " Reto Stocker, the ICRC's head of delegation in Kabul, Afghanistan, said in a statement.
According to AFP, he was sidelined to some degree when Mr Sarkozy took office in 2007 but made good use of a largely symbolic post - head of the UMP's parliamentary delegation - to raise his profile.
Speaking at a reception in Thailand, Dan Ashe, the head of the US delegation, called upon all the delegates to reject the EU compromise and asked them to support the American proposal.
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