Lumumba Di-Aping

Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping is a Sudanese diplomat and was chief negotiator of the group of 77 developing countries at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen .

According to the UK Guardian, he studied at the University of Oxford and trained with McKinsey .

Di-Aping was extremely critical of the so-called "Danish Text", a compromise formulation at the 2009 climate conference, which would have granted developing countries lower pollution rights.

At a meeting of the African delegates, he described the compromise formula as a suicide agreement . At the conference, he made clear the refusal of the African countries and China to make compromise proposals and compared the proposed agreement with the Holocaust , which caused considerable sensation and outrage. According to press reports, UN circles have described Di-aping's attack on the compromise paper as a classic case of The Fox and the Sour Grapes . Di-aping is simply the mouthpiece of the controversial Sudanese UN negotiator, Abdalmahmood Mohamad, who, on the occasion of the Darfur conflict and the crimes committed there, quarreled with the former British UN representative Robert John Sawers and later head of the secret service.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Guardian: Copenhagen: The key players and how they rated
2. ^ Hilary Whiteman, CNN: Poor nations' fury over leaked climate text . CNN.com. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
3. ↑ Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak . Guardian.co.uk. December 8, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
4. ↑ Emotional scenes at Copenhagen: Lumumba Di-Aping @ Africa civil society meeting - 8 Dec 2009 . Guardian.co.uk. December 8, 2009. Retrieved December 11, 2009.
5. ↑ Copenhagen climate summit negotiations 'suspended', BBC News, 14 December 2009
6. ^ Anger at delegate's Holocaust jibe against climate deal - as his country shares £ 62bn bonanza, Mail Online, 19 December 2009
7. ↑ Copenhagen closes with weak deal that poor threaten to reject, guardian.co.uk, 19 December 2009