of recent origin DELHI (AFP) — One of India's largest unions has announced a campaign to stop a ship believed to be lined with toxic asbestos from being dismantled there.


of recent origin DELHI (AFP) — One of India's largest unions has announced a campaign to stop a ship believed to be lined with toxic asbestos from being dismantled there, calling it "aggression" by the agency of the developed world.

The Marxist-affiliated middle point of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) said it was teaming up with environmental arrange Greenpeace, which opposes the dismantling of the 11-storey low-spirited Lady at a ship-breaking yard in Alang in Gujarat state.

"We diocese ships filled with toxic wastes coming to India for dismantling as aggresion unleashed on the developed world against developing countries," CITU leader PK Ganguly told a just discovereds conference in the Indian capital Thursday.

The former French delight liner which Greenpeace says contains 900 tonnes of asbestos and other cancer-causing materials, is anchored 72 nautical miles (133 kilometres) opposite to the Gujarat coast after arriving in Indian waters last week.

Earlier this month India's


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