Copenhagen Accord will affect India's sovereignty: Joshi

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday said though the Copenhagen Accord had no legal binding on India, the provision for 'international consultation and analysis', would affect its sovereignty.

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday said though the Copenhagen Accord had no legal binding on India, the provision for 'international consultation and analysis', would affect its sovereignty.

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"The words -- international consultation and analysis -- that figure in the accord amount to a sort of monitoring of the situation related to emissions ... we should not accept it," he told reporters here.

Joshi, who was part of the Indian parliamentary delegation to Copenhagen, said India should take the lead in the BASIC group of emerging economies, including South Africa, Brazil and China.

"The Copenhagen Accord is quite disappointing and it is in the interest of developed nations. India should have a wider environment policy to deal with the subject instead of falling prey to designs of developed nations," he said.

"It has also opened up a possibility of jettisoning of the Kyoto Protocol," he said rejecting the Centre's plea that the Copenhagen Accord was reached to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Joshi suggested that the leaders of all political parties and groups should sit together over the issue and make an strategy to counter the gameplan of developed nations.'