Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has again offered a "compromise" to reach an agreement at the third round of negotiations being held in Bonn, Germany, ahead of a climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico.

Rachmat Witoelar, the Indonesian president`s special envoy for climate change control who is also chief of the Indonesian delegation to the meeting urged all parties to be flexible to such controversial issues as global greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, including the measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) principles of developing countries and funding capacity to speed up the negotiation process.

The "compromise" would serve as the basis for the Cancun meeting to arrive at a realistic, practical and workable agreement, the Indonesian delegation said in a press statement issued on Thursday.

"We should be proud that Indonesia has always been considered as being able to come up with a compromise solution as well as to serve as a reference in every tough negotiation on climate change," Rachmat said.

He said all parties should uphold the "take and give" principle optimally to allow the longstanding negotiations to agree on efforts to save Earth.

Indonesia urged all parties to make optimum use of the remaining time to conclude the negotiations immediately as part of efforts to reach a concrete agreement at the Cancun meeting as mandated by the 13th climate change summit in Bali in 2007, he said.

At the Bonn meeting, developed nations were still reluctant to convey their second commitment to reduction of global greenhouse gas emission under the framework of the Kyoto Protocol to which their first commitment would expire in 2012, he said.

The Japanese, Australian and Russian delegations to the Bonn meeting proposed an end to the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol saying the developed nations` commitments must be accompanied by the binding commitments of developing countries, he said.

European Union was ready to bind itself to the second commitment of the Kyoto Protocol on condition other developed nations were prepared to affirm their equal commitment, he said.

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