Hasina satisfied over 'reasonable conclusion'

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COPENHAGEN, Dec 19 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed satisfaction over a 'reasonable conclusion' at the UN Climate Change Conference, saying there are certain areas that need to be finalised in the future.
"A deal has been agreed upon taking in most of all our concerns. There are certain areas that would be finalised in the coming days," she said in a statement at the Lund University Saturday.
Hasina had visited the Lund University campus in 1969 with her nuclear physicist husband, late Dr MA Wazed Miah.
Referring to the closed-door hectic negotiation in Copenhagen Friday, the Prime Minister said a core group was established comprising 25 countries, including Bangladesh, to finalise the agreement.
In COP15 in Copenhagen, she said, "Indeed, we came with our own expectations. So had 192 countries of the world with their own separate positions based on their individual, unique environmental problems, conditions, and even domestic political and economic compulsions."
The Prime Minister said it was interesting to note that around 130 heads of states and governments gathered here indicating the great importance they gave to the climate change conference.
She reiterated that though the greenhouse gas emission was negligible in Bangladesh, the country had become one of its worst victims.
Hasina said global warming had subjected Bangladesh to an increasingly frequent and erratic pattern of floods, cyclones, droughts; colossal tidal surges along its southern coasts and unreasonable high level of monsoon rainfall causing landslides and heavy river erosions while absence of seasonal rain in the North causing desertification.