Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
said on Thursday that all countries must be able to use clean and renewable energy sources, including nuclear power.
"Every country should have access to new technologies in order to vary its energy resources," he said.
Speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Ahmadinejad noted that countries must put emphasis on developing energy using green sources such as sunlight, tidal force and nuclear power.
The Iranian president suggested setting the year 2011 as deadline for changing energy sources and reducing global pollution levels.
Will his green statement keep west happy? (Photo: Reuters)
However, it is not clear whether Ahmadinejad's "green" statements will be enough to keep the Western nations happy.
The White House announced
on Wednesday that the Iranian long-range missile test had united the international community against the Islamic Republic, and blows out of the water Iran's claims of a peaceful nuclear program.
"At a time when the international community has offered Iran opportunities to begin to build trust and confidence, Iran's missile tests only undermine Iran's claims of peaceful intentions," White House spokesman Mike Hammer said.
"Such actions will increase the seriousness and resolve of the international community to hold Iran accountable for its continued defiance of its international obligations on its nuclear program," he added.
President Shimon Peres
called upon countries in the Middle East "to separate the issue of environment from politics."
Peres called for the establishment of a regional taskforce that will include scientists from Israel
as well as scientists from countries that do not have diplomatic ties with Israel.
"Peace necessitates that we bound ourselves with borders, but the environment calls upon us to take action regardless of borders," he said, adding that "carbon footprints do not carry national passports, rivers cross regions without visas and pollution travels with them."
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