نخست وزیر روسیه اعلام کرده است که بدون حضور برقراری محدودیت برای کشورهایی چون چین و آمریکا این کشور هیچ موافقت نامه را تایید نخواهد کرد. وی این سخنان را در جمع گروهی از دانشگاهیان در مسکو اعلام کرده است و بیان داشته است که چرا روسیه باید رشد اقتصادی اش را به خاطر سایر کشورها به عقب بیندازد.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday he would reject any new climate change agreement that imposed restrictions on Russia but not on other big polluters, such as the United States or China, Reuters reports.

"The United States and China are leading economies and leading polluters. Should we restrain our development because of them? We won't agree with an approach that allows the exclusion of some countries,” Putin told a group of academics and journalists in Moscow.

"We ratified the Kyoto protocol even though some colleagues tried to persuade us it was harmful to Russia's economy," Putin said. Continue