India Has Signed Pact on Minamata Disease: Javadekar

"We have signed the treaty on Minamata. Because mercury is highly polluting and we will not use it. We have signed such an agreement. I think India's attitude has always been progressive and we have taken this forward," the minister said without elaborating.

India signed the treaty more than a year after adoption of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. It was agreed at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in Geneva, Switzerland.
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