Indian Govt maintains studied silence on India's role on white chrysotile asbestos at UN Meet

[Gopal Krishna]

Official Press Release of  Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,  Government of India maintains studied silence about India's role with regard to white chrysotile asbestos at  9th meeting of the  Conference of the Parties  to UN's Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. Notably, the UN Meeting was concluded on 10th May, 2009 but the Press Release was issued on 16th May, 2019. Government's silence on white chrysotile asbestos is deafening.   

http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2019/06/indian-govt-maintains-studied-silence.html  

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=190019  

Indian government fails to reconcile its ban on mining of all kinds of asbestos and trade in asbestos waste by opposing listing of carcinogenic white chrysotile asbestos mineral fiber in UN list of hazardous chemicals at the Geneva meeting

http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2019/05/indian-government-fails-to-reconcile.html