WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The U.S.-sponsored meeting of major emitting countries is aimed at supporting and accelerating the U.N. process on climate change, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

Skeptics of the U.S. conference have expressed concern the climate meeting might be an attempt to circumvent the U.N. process.

But Rice, opening the two-day meeting, said the United States "supports the goals" of a U.N. summit on climate earlier this week "and we want this year's U.N. climate change conference in Indonesia to succeed."

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