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Ramesh had earlier said the Indian side "had very
fruitful discussions with Obama" and that "India has a good
deal."

At Copenhagen, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
there is no question of making India's unilateral commitments
"internationally legally binding."
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also said that there was
no question of making our unilateral commitments
internationally legally binding, we will reflect them in an
international agreement in a suitable way but we are not going
to take any internationally legally binding commitments. That
is simply not on the cards," Ramesh said in Copenhagen,
quoting the prime minister as having said. Obama
appreciated Singh's statement, the minister said.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meanwhile described the
Copenhagen Accord as "an agreement that will really not be the
final word.
The head of the Nobel-winning UN panel of climate
scientists said the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was a
start but urged countries to work quickly towards a legally
binding pact.
"We will have build on it, we will have to make sure it
moves quickly towards the status of a legally binding
agreement and therefore I think the task for the global
community is cut out," he told a TV channel.
"In the next few weeks and months we will have to work
very hard to see that, before the end of 2010 if not earlier,
we get a binding agreement that really moves action in the
direction we need," he said.
"We really have to move on rather quickly to reduce the
emissions of greenhouse gases. There is growing evidence of
the impacts of climate change and if we delay action these
impacts are going to become much worse, far more serious," he
warned. PTI GSN
MYR


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