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Trump does a U-turn on Paris climate accord, says US could rejoin deal

Frankly, it's an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had a problem with the agreement that they signed: Trump

Donald Trump

Donald Trump US President, to the media on the south lawn of the White House in Washington on Saturday

AFPPTI Washington
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States could "conceivably" return to the Paris climate accord, although he stopped short of signalling any move in that direction.

"Frankly, it's an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had a problem with the agreement that they signed, because, as usual, they made a bad deal," Trump told a news conference.

"So we can conceivably go back in," added the president, who pulled out of the 2015 accord on curbing global warming emissions last June.

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First Published: Jan 11 2018 | 8:28 AM IST

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