Afer Copenhagen talks, Ramesh to make statement in RS tomorrow

Afer Copenhagen talks, Ramesh to make statement in RS tomorrow
New Delhi, Dec 20 (PTI) Fresh from the world climate
change talks which reached a last-minute non-binding deal,
India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will make a
statement in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian
Parliament) Monday where he is expected to say that
India's sovereignty has been well protected.

Ramesh on his return home after attending the nearly
two-week long 193-nation conference in Copenhagen met Congress
President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday and briefed her on the
provisional deal cobbled together by a small group of
countries, including the US, India and China for fighting
global warming.
"I will make a statement in Rajya Sabha tomorrow at 12
noon tomorrow ," Ramesh told PTI here Sunday evening when his
comments were sought on Government's strategy in Parliament
post-Copenhagen Accord. He declined to give any details.
Ramesh, who was part of the Indian negotiating team,
earlier said on the outcome of the crucial negotiations in the
Danish Capital that the accord was "a good deal."
Indian officials have also noted that the US-brokered
deal had addressed India's concerns adequately, although some
improvements could be made.
"The red lines have been met," Indian Prime Minister's
Climate Change envoy Shyam Saran said, noting that India did
not have to compromise on any of its fundamental stands on
the issue.
Ramesh is likely to tell Rajya Sabha that India's
sovereignty was well protected in Copenhagen and that some of
the red lines he had expressed in his speech in Parliament
ahead of Copenhagen talks have not been transgressed.
The Minister is understood to have taken the view that
the Copenhagen accord is the first good step holding that it
was good for India, the world and good for Earth.
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