Sentences with phrase «plenary hall»

At 1 pm the President and the Secretary General swept into the main plenary hall along with Minister Witoelar and the Conference's top diplomat Yvo de Boer.

This speech was given by Merna Ghaly of the Arab Youth Climate Movement to an empty plenary hall.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

The minister, his emotion showing as delegates started to rise to their feet, brought the final gavel down on the agreement to open and sustained acclamation across the plenary hall.

Despite these concerns, the mood in the plenary hall on Tuesday was overwhelmingly enthusiastic; members wore «Educators for Hillary» T - shirts, waved signs in support, and cheered with excitement.

In an arrangement with the Philippines delegation to demonstrate their solidarity with those impacted by this climate disaster, civil society were to accompany Mr. Sano from the plenary hall to a side - event.

They were escorted out of the International Convention Center's plenary hall and removed from the premises at 12:30 p.m local time.

The final, hour - long delay, which left delegates and dignitaries milling around in the plenary hall, gave time to change the auxiliary verb «shall» in one key section to the word «should» — avoiding, it appeared, the need for Senate ratification before the United States could join the pact.

Filipino delegate Yeb Sano went on a voluntary fast until significant progress is made to address climate change and climate finance on the first day of COP 19 while everybody in the plenary hall stood in three minutes silence for the victims of typhoon Haiyan.

Over the past two weeks 196 governments have spent hours within consultation rooms and plenary halls in efforts of reaching an agreement.

European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard and Chinese negotiator Xie Zhenhua meet outside the plenary hall earlier in the week.

In the corridors and plenary halls, another logic rules.