Ministers agree Kyoto climate review plan-Germany

NAIROBI, Nov 17 (Reuters) Environment ministers at UN climate talks agreed today to a review, ending in 2008, of the UN's Kyoto Protocol for fighting global warming, in a big step towards breaking deadlock at the meeting, a minister said.

''I think it's agreed,'' German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said after meeting other ministers for high-level talks before putting the issue to a vote.

''We've reached a compromise where we have a review and it should end in 2008,'' he said, adding: ''You don't know what will happen'' when all 189 nations meet in a plenary later today.

He said that China had dropped objections to a text after changes on the final day of the talks. A Russian proposal for allowing new countries to sign up for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions was still unresolved.

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