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Eco-labelling deleted from declaration: Baalu

New Delhi Sept. 4. Despite stiff resistance from powerful blocks, India and other developing countries defeated attempts to impose trade barriers and other restrictions on them at the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg in South Africa. The industrialised countries were determined on imposing trade barriers against the developing countries in some form or the other.

"We succeeded in deleting the eco-labelling criteria from the text of declaration since it could have been misused against us," the Environment and Forests Minister, T.R. Baalu, who led the Indian delegation, told PTI on his return here today.

He said that the summit, taking place 10 years after the Rio Earth meet, was very important because the developing countries had a lot at stake.

Asserting that environment was a common global concern and not exclusive to individual countries, he said the success of global efforts in this regard was directly related to the right kind of international cooperation, in which developed countries have to help the developing ones with financial and technical resources.

Common but differentiated responsibility was the main concern for India and other members of the G-77.

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