India to ratify Paris climate deal on Sunday, Prez gives assent

October 01, 2016 19:59

India is all set to ratify the Paris climate deal tomorrow, with President Pranab Mukherjee giving his assent to a proposal approved earlier by the government, making India one of the key countries to help bring the pact into force.

"We will ratify the Paris deal in the UN tomorrow. The President has signed it. The Union Cabinet has already approved it," Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave told

reporters in New Delhi.

He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced on September 25 that India will ratify it on October 2 on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

"This (decision) was taken after a lot of deliberations and with a view to give the world a messege...India is fast becoming a super power," Dave said.

"Call it international pressure or a sort of competition, this morning European Union has also decided to ratify it, which is a good thing," Dave said.

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