MONTREAL, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- An agreement on launching new universal talks on combating global warming was within reach as a two-week UN climate meeting continued its exhaustive negotiations here on Saturday.

    The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), attended by 189 nations, has been held to discuss the extension of UN's Kyoto Protocol and the possibility of an open "dialogue" under the 1992 UNFCCC.

    Host Canada intends to include the United States which opposed the Kyoto Proposal and developing countries such as India and China in the separate non-binding talks on climate change.

    But Canada has downplayed the surmises that its proposed dialogue is a prelude to emissions targets similar to the ones under the Kyoto Protocol, as pressures from Washington mounts.

    The 157 countries that signed the Kyoto Protocal has come to Montreal in the hope of carrying out new negotiations from May 2006 on new ways of checking greenhouse gas emissions after the protocol's first phase ends in 2012.

    Most Scientists believed that the growing emissions of greenhouse gases may lead to disastrous climate changes, bringing up more devastating storms, tsunami, desertification and rising sea levels around the globe. Enditem