Leonid Slutsky
In Russia we are forced to make the decision of US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, but it cannot but cause regret. Such statement as transfers RIA Novosti, was made head of the Duma Committee on international Affairs Leonid Slutsky.
“The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement has become another step in the implementation of election promises of the new President trump”, he reminded.
“Russia has consistently remained committed to the Kyoto Protocol, and then came his shift to the Paris climate agreement. We applied many efforts to its development and signing,” — said Slutsky.
The Deputy noted that even when information about the possible U.S. withdrawal from the Paris agreement on climate change there are fears that the move may hinder its implementation.
“However, we hope that they have not met, and other key stakeholders, including Russia and China, will do everything possible to implement the agreement, whose main purpose is to prevent the planet’s ecological catastrophe”, — concluded the head of the Committee.
Thursday, 1 June, trump announced the US withdrawal from the climate agreement. In his view, it is infeasible for the United States. The President said that the United States will begin negotiations about re-entry into the Paris agreement or of a “new deal on terms fair to the United States, their businesses, their employees, their people, their taxpayers.”
The administration of the European Union, as well as a number of leading EU countries have expressed in connection with the decision trump his frustration.