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Key advisers to
President Donald Trump and cabinet officials were due to convene
at the White House to resolve an internal debate over whether
Trump should keep his campaign promise to pull the United States
out of the Paris agreement, according to senior administration
officials and several people briefed on the meeting.
The White House official did not say when the meeting would be
rescheduled.
The meeting was meant to lay the groundwork for a formal
proposal to Trump, who has promised to announce a decision
before a Group of Seven summit at the end of May.
Ahead of Tuesday's originally planned meeting, business groups
and some lawmakers called on the White House to remain in the
Paris agreement, while some conservative policy groups urged the
advisers to recommend a withdrawal.
Meanwhile, representatives of nearly 200 countries that are
party to the Paris agreement are meeting in Bonn this week to
discuss technical aspects of implementing the accord.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host the biennial
Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, later this week.
(Reporting By Valerie Volcovici and Steve Holland; Editing by
Paul Tait)
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