'India's approach on warming important for US'

WASHINGTON: India's approach towards tackling global warming and simultaneously managing its energy needs is of concern to the United States not just on the question of environment, but also for its national security, Speaker of House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said.

In her remarks on the recent visit of a Congressional delegation to India over the Easter Recess, Pelosi said she talked about global warming, its significance to American national security, to its environment, the economy and the preservation of earth with senior officials during the trip.

"In India, we were greeted at the highest level by the Prime Minister of India, in the non-profit sector by Dr R K Pachauri, who shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, who guided us through what was happening in the sector in terms of renewable energy resources, bringing light to one billion Indians by using solar and other renewables," she said.

"We learned a lot on our trip. The purpose was to see how we could work together with India, a country with 400 million people who are without electricity, but nonetheless having a major responsibility as a rapidly developing country on this important issue. That is important, as I said, not only to our environment, but to our national security," the top Democrat leader said.

The US House Speaker also spoke of the events in Tibet which she said she had been following carefully over the last several days.