Agence France-Presse: Talks between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and nine ex-Soviet nations on a new EU climate pact yielded “progress” but left key points unresolved, Sarkozy said Saturday. “We are not yet at the end of the discussion, but we have progressed,” the bloc’s current chairman told a press conference after the meeting in the Baltic coastal city of Gdansk. “Today, I am optimistic that we can get there even if there is still a way to go,” he said. Sarkozy is also president of …