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Mumbai:
Germany is willing for a broadbased and close cooperation with India in the energy
sector, German chancellor Angela Merkel told industry leaders at a meeting in
New Delhi. Germany,
she said, wants India to take a long-term view while negotiating emission reduction
obligations in any global climate deal. "In
the area of energy we have to co-operate very closely ...and efforts will be made
to give priority to renewable energy," she said at the jointly organised
CII-FICCI-ASSOCHAM meeting. "India
will be our strategic partner and we wish to enhance this relationship,"
she said.Responding
to Nath''s complaints about delay in EU ratifying talks on the agreement on investment,
Merkel said "if India''s states have to ratify, it would take longer".
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