Sarkozy asks India to atteend Copenhagen Summit in order to be heard
Port-of-Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) | Saturday, Nov 28 2009 IST
 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed the hope that India would never stand in the way of agreements at Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change next month and urged it to attend the Summit if it wants to be heard.

The French President who held an hour-long bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) yesterday, said at a press conference here that he had had lunch with Dr Singh.

The Prime Minister also held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart Gordon Brown.

President Sarkozy referred to the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with India and said he was fully confident that India and the Prime Minister would be present at Copenhagen.

''India has nothing to lose and everything to gain by being in Copenhagen. If India is to be heard, it needs to be present,'' he said and hoped that India would ''never stand in the way of agreements at Copenhagen''.

Earlier the French President addressed a special session of the CHOGM on Climate Change.

This was the first time a French President had been invited to a Commonwealth Summit. .

Mr Sarkozy said he was in agreement with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown regarding the suggestion that as soon as possible after Copenhagen, ''we mobilize 10 billion US Dollars to pump into emerging countries, 20 per cent earmarked for combating deforestation. This would be over three year period Immediate financing.'' Asked about the December 18/19 dates and the attendance of US Preseident Barak Obama at the Summitt, Mr Sarkozy said he had discussed with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and Danish President Anders Fogh Rasmussen and they had agreed that the decisive time would be December 17/18.

Leaders needed to be together to take decisions on December 17/18, he said.

''We have to be together at some time. If no decision is taken in Copenhagen, it will be an historic failure...''We either succeed or fail''.

''There are 20 days left until the start of the two week summit and 20 days ahead to shift things further down the line.'' Seven to eight binding decisions will have to be taken, he said and added that ''We either take all the decisions or none.'' He said developed countries should help developing countries financially to face up to the challenge of global warming.

-- (UNI) -- 28DF4.xml

 

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