The Dean of Diplomatic Corps, Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, on Friday raised the problem of Delhi air air pollution with MEA, pronouncing that the Indian government needed to act on it for the sake of now not simply diplomats however all 22 million citizens of the town. TOI had reported on Friday that Castellanos had sought time to speak about the problem with the overseas ministry after heads of many missions in Delhi approached him with issues over the deteriorating air high quality.
Castellanos said in an authentic statement he met MEA's Chief of Protocol Sanjay Verma over the problem. "He has taken note of the concerns of diplomats assigned to Delhi and their families over the current environmental condition in our city," said Castellanos in a statement.
"The diplomatic community had asked us to share some of our concerns with officials of MEA about air pollution in New Delhi and how it is affecting the inflow of tourism from some of our countries and daily operations of some of our missions. However, this is an issue that affects the 22 million people living in New Delhi and that the issue needs to be addressed for the better future of all the people who live in the city and not only for the diplomatic community. We all breathe the same air," Castellanos said additional.
While Castellanos tempered his statement with worry over the plight of the abnormal citizens of Delhi, the truth that the diplomats were compelled to approach the MEA is likely to go away many within the government red-faced with the town still struggling to keep poisonous air at bay.
In the assembly, Castellanos said, each he and Verma expressed hope that the "outcome of the efforts of both central and local government will bring rapid and positive results" for the folks of this "very active, energetic and busy city".
According to Castellanos, Verma advised him within the assembly that the ordinary deterioration within the high quality of air was a made from multiple reasons, maximum of which have been indeed domestic, however which had also been annoyed by means of a dirt storm "from a distant geography".
"The simultaneous aggregation of these cases has led to an environmental challenge, which the government of India is determined to address and ameliorate," Verma advised Castellanos.
Verma confident Castellanos that the subject was being given "top priority" by means of the Indian government and that these demanding situations were products of speedy financial enlargement and construction which have been recognized to have affected several countries.
Castellanos had advised TOI on Thursday that he were receiving many calls from HOMs (heads of missions) all for their well being and that he was going to carry it up before the COP (chief of protocol in MEA) in his next assembly with him.
In a non-public weblog publish on Tuesday, Costa Roca ambassador to India Mariela Cruz Alvarez had said, "This past week the levels of pollution in Delhi reached impossible numbers. I had no idea about the consequences of breathing this air until I reached Bangalore and my system collapsed."
Castellanos said in an authentic statement he met MEA's Chief of Protocol Sanjay Verma over the problem. "He has taken note of the concerns of diplomats assigned to Delhi and their families over the current environmental condition in our city," said Castellanos in a statement.
"The diplomatic community had asked us to share some of our concerns with officials of MEA about air pollution in New Delhi and how it is affecting the inflow of tourism from some of our countries and daily operations of some of our missions. However, this is an issue that affects the 22 million people living in New Delhi and that the issue needs to be addressed for the better future of all the people who live in the city and not only for the diplomatic community. We all breathe the same air," Castellanos said additional.
While Castellanos tempered his statement with worry over the plight of the abnormal citizens of Delhi, the truth that the diplomats were compelled to approach the MEA is likely to go away many within the government red-faced with the town still struggling to keep poisonous air at bay.
In the assembly, Castellanos said, each he and Verma expressed hope that the "outcome of the efforts of both central and local government will bring rapid and positive results" for the folks of this "very active, energetic and busy city".
According to Castellanos, Verma advised him within the assembly that the ordinary deterioration within the high quality of air was a made from multiple reasons, maximum of which have been indeed domestic, however which had also been annoyed by means of a dirt storm "from a distant geography".
"The simultaneous aggregation of these cases has led to an environmental challenge, which the government of India is determined to address and ameliorate," Verma advised Castellanos.
Verma confident Castellanos that the subject was being given "top priority" by means of the Indian government and that these demanding situations were products of speedy financial enlargement and construction which have been recognized to have affected several countries.
Castellanos had advised TOI on Thursday that he were receiving many calls from HOMs (heads of missions) all for their well being and that he was going to carry it up before the COP (chief of protocol in MEA) in his next assembly with him.
In a non-public weblog publish on Tuesday, Costa Roca ambassador to India Mariela Cruz Alvarez had said, "This past week the levels of pollution in Delhi reached impossible numbers. I had no idea about the consequences of breathing this air until I reached Bangalore and my system collapsed."
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