COP15 president urges closing gaps in biodiversity talks

MONTREAL, Canada, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- All parties need to show greater courage, wisdom and determination to close gaps and divides to promote reaching a final outcome at a key UN biodiversity conference, Huang Runqiu, China's minister of ecology and environment, said Tuesday.

Huang, also president of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, told a press conference that with the broad participation of all stakeholders, the meeting so far has achieved positive progress.