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In a strong message to developed nations which are historically responsible for global warming, India today said the "very critical issue" of "differentiated responsibilities" should be resolved to reach an agreement on climate change. A day after France, the host nation of the UN climate conference in Paris later this year, made an impassioned plea to the world to "agree on major issues" before meeting, a top climate official said India was not against a "universal action" to fight climate change but asserted that "it cannot be equal action". "This agreement is going to be evolved under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). We must keep in mind that the convention is not being negotiated. "What is being done is that the new agreement which is going to evolve