Delegates discussing the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution failed to reach consensus, diplomats said on Friday, voicing disappointment and even rage that the 10-day talks produced no deal, APA reports citing TASS.
Delegates had been seeking a breakthrough in the deadlocked United Nations' talks in Geneva, but states pushing for an ambitious treaty said that the latest text released in the early hours of Friday failed to meet their expectations.
French ecology minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said in the talks' closing session that she was "enraged because despite genuine efforts by many, and real progress in discussions, no tangible results have been obtained."
In an apparent reference to oil-producing nations, Colombia's delegate Haendel Rodriguez said a deal had been "blocked by a small number of states who simply did not want an agreement."
The path forward for the negotiations is uncertain.
Some countries like Britain said that negotiations should resume but others described a broken process.
"It is very clear that the current process will not work," South Africa's delegate said.
More than 1,000 delegates have gathered in Geneva for the sixth round of talks, after a meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) in South Korea late last year ended without a deal.
Negotiations had gone into overtime on Thursday as countries scrambled to bridge deep divisions over the extent of future curbs.
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