The Other Voice

“This text destroys both the UN convention on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol. This is aimed at producing a new treaty, a new legal initiative that throws away the basis of [differing] obligations between the poorest and most wealthy nations in the world.” - Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese chairman of the G77 plus China group of developing countries, condemning the ‘Danish text’ a controversial document which was leaked to the press during the Copenhagen Climate Summit
“We are not opposed to smaller states. However, new states should be need based, created for better and focused administration and not to adjust some political parties who have failed to gain a foothold in the bigger states.” – Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed regarding the Telangana issue and numerous demands for statehood.