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Ramesh said: "We will resist in united manner any
manipulation to weaken in any way the troika of the UNFCC, the
Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Action Plan," Ramesh said.
In New Delhi, India's Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao
made it clear that India would neither agree to legally
binding emission cuts nor a peaking year for its carbon
emissions. Any international review of India's voluntary and
domestically-funded mitigation actions would also be
unacceptable, she said.
Negotiators worked through the night in Copenhagen,
but failed to resolve major disputes as world leaders began
arriving in hopes of signing a deal by Friday.
Hundreds of climate activists were detained for trying
to break into the Climate Summit and establish 'people's
assembly', accusing the 193 participating countries of not
trying to reach a new deal to combat the menace.
Police fired tear gas and arrested hundreds of
protesters near the Bella Centre, the venue of the world's
largest conference on Climate, amid apprehensions that the
talks may collapse.
In Washington, Obama held a conference call with
leaders of Britain, France and Germany, besides calling
Bangladeshi and Ethiopian Prime Ministers in his last ditch
effort to arrive at a successful deal on climate change.
"The President believes that we can get an operational
agreement that makes sense in Copenhagen over the next few
days," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
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