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The issue of women's reproductive rights had not been considered a problem during the drafting of a global action plan to reduce poverty and protect the environment, where water, sanitation and energy had seemed the most controversial. But Environment Ministers rushing to complete the text before their heads of state arrived today, suspended talks late on Sunday night with reproductive health joining renewable energy as a final sticking point. The row was about a paragraph calling for better health services ``consistent with national laws and cultural and religious values'', an E.U. diplomat told Reuters. ``There was concern the language may represent a step backwards from what was agreed in Cairo in 1994, especially on sexual reproductive rights,'' he said, referring to a United Nations conference on population and development that underpinned rights to reproductive health. ``That was a good conference and we don't want to go backwards on that,'' the diplomat added. According to an activist of Greenpeace who was following the talks closely, some countries also feared the wording could tacitly endorse the practice of female genital mutilation, common in parts of the Horn of Africa. Reuters
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