Opening the two-week session, Thailand’s prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said he hoped the “political will and vision” expressed by world leaders at the UN summit in New York last week would act as a spur to the negotiations. "There is no plan B. If we do not realise plan A, we go straight to plan F, which stands for failure" he warned the delegates, just as a tropical storm – Typhoon Ketsana – swept through Luzon, in the Philippines, dumping 334mm of rain in six hours. Full Article at Irish Times