Ms Merkel wants to wrap things up before the new Bundestag convenes on October 27th or at the latest by November 9th, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The IGWG held two sessions in November 2004 and February/May 2005 with a view to endorsing a final text for consideration by the World Health Assembly at its 58th meeting.
Only ten days before the Opening of Parliament, Lord Monteagle, an apparently reformed Catholic, was sitting down to dinner in his Hoxton home when an important letter arrived for him. It read.
As climate talks begin to build toward a climax in Copenhagen in December, when a follow-on to the Kyoto Protocol is due to be drawn up, Gao's challenge stands as a gaping rift.