13 April 2004 19:51
Joining Kyoto Protocol will harm Russian economy, says Putin`s adviser
St Petersburg, 13 April: If Russia signs the Kyoto Protocol, this will cause it to suffer an economic recession,
Andrey Illarionov, the Russian president's adviser on economic issues, told a news conference in St Petersburg on
Tuesday [13 April].
He said that all other countries which would sign the document would experience the same consequences. "During
the last six months we have been trying to understand what the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol can give us. However,
negative consequences are in the lead," the adviser said.
Illarionov compared joining the protocol with "an international Auschwitz", which would demand that carbon
dioxide emissions be more than halved. "If such quotas are fixed for a human being, who also produces carbon
dioxide, then we will have to consume half the air we breathe," he said.
[Passage omitted]
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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