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By ET Bureau | Updated: Nov 07, 2016, 05.31 PM IST Post a Comment

KOLKATA: The Indian tobacco industry expressed its dissatisfaction for non-inclusion of the industry in the seventh session of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) COP 7 which began on Monday at Greater Noida.

The event is vital for the industry since here decisions are taken on future tobacco control policies and regulations that countries should adopt. It is attended by representatives of the FCTC signatory countries, NGOs and anti-tobacco activists, amongst others.

“It is unfortunate that the industry stakeholders and tobacco farmers whose livelihood will be affected by the decisions at this conference have not been allowed to participate in the conference. It is disappointing that WHO and the Indian government did not respond to the TII said the participation of stakeholders is essential to ensure that the farmer and industry view point on various issues arising pleas of the industry stakeholders and tobacco farming community seeking participation in out of the COP7 Agenda is taken cognizance of. the COP7 meeting,” said a release issued by the industry body, The Tobacco Institute of India (TII).

TII said the participation of stakeholders is essential to ensure that the farmer and industry view point on various issues arising out of the COP7 Agenda is taken cognizance of and no unilateral and discriminatory one-sided decision is taken.

TII director Syed Mahmood Ahmad said the industry is concerned that tobacco control activists and NGOs, who will have unhindered access to the conference, continue to wage a relentless campaign to influence tobacco control policies in the country and promote a false propaganda that the Indian Government is obligated under the FCTC to implement provisions of the FCTC and introduce further regulations in the country which are excessive in nature and inimical to tobacco cultivation and the tobacco farming community.

He said the FCTC allows various countries to consider their local conditions and domestic priorities while adopting measures recommended by it.

TII said the anti-tobacco NGOs funded by vested interests are putting pressure on the policy makers to pursue an agenda guided by false propaganda. It said the NGOs lack real world knowledge of tobacco growing and promote arbitrary measures that have very adverse social and economic consequences for the country.

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