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PARIS — UN climate talks will take place in Bangkok from April 3-8 to follow up on last month's meeting in Mexico, including the future of the Kyoto Protocol, sources close to the negotiations said on Friday.

The meeting, of senior officials, will deal with some of the technical details resulting from the two-week conference in Cancun.
They include plans for a fund for poor nations badly exposed to climate change and financing the conservation of tropical forests.
The Cancun meeting also left unresolved the future of the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only agreement that specifies curbs in greenhouse gases.
The protocol's first commitment period expires at the end of 2012, a deadline that is causing jitters in the carbon market.
The Bangkok talks will be the first of the year gathering signatories of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the protocol's parent treaty.
Two other meetings will be held this year -- a scheduled meeting in Bonn, Germany, at senior official level, and the annual meeting at ministerial level, taking place in Durban, South Africa, in December.
An additional meeting is likely to take place in October between the Bonn and Durban talks, one of the sources said, adding that the venue was unknown.