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Speaking in the plenary, the Minister said the long-term objectives and goals, this ambition among them, were settled long ago under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, and that what the world now lacks is a matching supply of means to achieve them.

Climate negotiations under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement fall to the environment ministry, which is why this portfolio and no other led the delegation.

The Pre-COP31 meeting was co-hosted by these three countries, and India attended it as a participating Party with a delegation of its own.

A Pre-COP is the preparatory round held a few weeks ahead of the annual UN Climate Change Conference, and the release makes clear that this year the conference itself moves to Antalya in Türkiye in the month of November.

NEFA, as it was called, was administered by the Governor of Assam on behalf of the Ministry of External Affairs rather than by the Assam government, a reflection of its position on the frontier; it was renamed Arunachal Pradesh and made a Union Territory on 20 January 1972.

The Sela pass, in the high country of the Tawang sector, carries the road from Dirang and Bomdila into Tawang town and is the best known pass of Arunachal Pradesh; Bum La, on the boundary with Tibet, and Pangsau Pass, on the Myanmar border, are the other two worth remembering.

The mithun, Bos frontalis, is a semi-domesticated bovine of the hill forests and is the state animal of Arunachal Pradesh, where it is counted as wealth and used in marriage and ceremonial exchange; it is also the state animal of Nagaland, a point examiners enjoy.

Arunachal Pradesh touches three countries and Nepal is not one of them; Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh lie along the Nepal border, far to the west.

Dree is the agricultural festival of the Apatani of the Ziro valley in Lower Subansiri district, kept in the middle of the year as a prayer against crop failure.

Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama and a celebrated poet, was born at Urgelling monastery, a short way from the town of Tawang, which is why the Tawang valley holds so important a place in Tibetan Buddhism.

The McMahon Line was drawn at the Simla Convention of 1914 between British India and Tibet and is named after Sir Henry McMahon, then foreign secretary of the Government of India.

Namdapha lies in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh near the Myanmar border, is the largest national park in north-east India, and is famous as the one protected area said to hold four big cats: the tiger, the leopard, the snow leopard and the clouded leopard.

It makes the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh specially responsible for law and order in the state, a responsibility he discharges on his individual judgment after consulting the Council of Ministers, and it provides that the Legislative Assembly shall consist of not less than thirty members.

The Yarlung Tsangpo of Tibet turns round the Namcha Barwa massif and enters India in Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang, also written Dihang; in Assam, after it is joined by the Lohit and the Dibang near Sadiya, it takes the name Brahmaputra, and in Bangladesh it is the Jamuna.

Under the State of Arunachal Pradesh Act, 1986 the Union Territory became the twenty-fourth state of India on 20 February 1987, the same day on which Mizoram became the twenty-third state.

Itanagar stands in Papum Pare district at the foot of the hills and has been the seat of government since the territory was being readied for statehood.

The Pamir plateau, where the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun and the Tian Shan meet, carries an average elevation of several thousand metres and is therefore called the Roof of the World, a name sometimes extended to the Tibetan plateau.

The Kosi descends from Nepal carrying a very heavy silt load, builds up its own bed and shifts its channel across the north Bihar plain, flooding fresh stretches of farmland, which is why it is called the Sorrow of Bihar.

Kochi in Kerala, with its natural harbour and its long history as a spice port trading with the Arabs, the Chinese, the Portuguese and the Dutch, is called the Queen of the Arabian Sea.

Coimbatore grew into a centre of cotton spinning and textile machinery on the strength of the black cotton soil of the region and its hydroelectric power, so it took the southern version of the Manchester epithet.