“As a responsible member of the international community, India is entirely dedicated to working with the rest of the world to conserve and protect our environment,” he said in a statement just hours before his departure to be present at the 15th Conference of Parties of the United Nations

A top investigation has been planned into the accident involving Prime Minister’s special aircraft at the technical area of the airport here and an Air India loader has been suspended.

Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, who rushed to the airport on learning regarding the incident, told reporters that both the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Air India would accomplish an investigation.

He said preface investigation has found that the Air India loader was working the hydraulic lift carrying food items that hit the cargo door of the Air India Boeing 747-400.

“Let the full inquiry report come. Then we will know whether there was anything mala fide in this,” he said adding the loader has good experience of having done work relating to several VVIP aircraft.

He denounced attempts by several developed nations to scrap the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and said climate change “is becoming the excuse for pursuing protectionist policies under a green label” which would be discarded by India and other developing nations

In a strongly-worded involvement at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet (CHOGM) here, Singh said, “it is regrettable that the universal discussion on climate change has developed into entangled with arguments about maintaining economic competitiveness or level-playing fields.”

Singh disapproved of attempts by several developed countries to lesser expectations from the December Summit on Climate Change, saying the discussions should not be pre-empted and attempts must be made to accomplish as much convergence as possible.

“If the result at Copenhagen diminishes rather than enhances the accomplishment of the UNFCCC (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) in respect of the precise components of mitigation, adaptation, finance and technology, it would signify a serious setback, no matter how we seek to characterize this result,” the Prime Minister told the Summit of 53 former British colonies.

The conference on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand would be the initial high-level contact between the two nations following recent months of political barbs led to extraordinary levels of tension and uncertainties that the opposition might spin out of control.

Relations have warmed in recent years, generally on the back of reciprocal trade anticipated to pass $60 billion next year, a 30-fold increase since the year 2000.

But tensions have risen in the previous few months accompanied by reports in Indian media of Chinese border incursions, and an opposition by Beijing to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s planned visit next month to Arunachal Pradesh that China claims as its individual territory.

“The visit of the Dalai Lama is seen as not only reinforcing India’s claim on Arunachal Pradesh, but also boosting the Tibetan struggle by undermining Chinese territorial integrity,” said Bhaskar Roy, a New Delhi-based strategic analyst on China.

And Beijing would like to make sure that this latest age group of Tibetan exiles based in northern India is not used as a bargaining fragment by New Delhi in future, analysts say.

“All of this is reflected in its reaction to its failure to assimilate Tibet,” said strategic analyst Prem Shankar Jha.

Joint distrust lingers from a short war the two sides fought in 1962 and the existence of the Dalai Lama in India bothers Beijing, as does India’s increasing dealings with the United States.

“This meeting would be about building confidence that has taken a knock in recent months — weeding out misapprehensions, clearing of the air,” Roy said.

The two sides have too struggled to resolve their border disagreement. Every side claims vast swathes of the other’s province all along their 3,500-km (2,173-mile) Himalayan border.

China puts down claim to 90,000 sq km of land on the eastern division of the border in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. India says China inhabits 38,000 square km (15,000 square miles) of region in Aksai Chin plateau.

Although a fresh war is very improbable, the troubled border between the world’s two most heavily populated countries has the prospective to stimulate tensions destabilizing additional a region already roiled.

“I wish to point out that at present Chinese-Indian relations have maintained a healthy direction of development,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said on Tuesday.

PM Manmohan Singh did settle on the want for superior watchfulness in respect of China throughout his address to the top military brass, at the mutual commanders’ conference at this time on Tuesday, but all references to the country were concealed out in the “extracts” of his speech later unrestricted to the media.

This indicator of the enduring ultra-defensive frame of mind vis-a-vis China came even while the PM himself, as one senior military officer put it, did not say “anything earth-shattering”.

All that the PM declared was that India desired to stay watchful and take needed steps to bolster developmental work beside the Sino-Indian boundary, in an obvious indication to China’s enormous build-up of military infrastructure all beside the 4,057-km Line of Actual Control.

“The PM also talked regarding the `complex relationship’ India had with China. He said there was continuing procedure to put together political trust and determine border issues with China but that it would take some time,” said a source.

Remarkably enough, even references to Pakistan were deleted from the parts of the PM’s dialogue which were made public. While over-cautiousness is nearly constantly on display as far as China is concerned, the government does not generally withdraw away from conversation about Pakistan’s role in aiding and abetting cross-border terrorism.