Nairobi, June 30 -- India has conveyed its readiness to engage constructively towards a balanced and effective global instrument on plastic pollution while strongly emphasising the need to safeguard the right to development.

According to an official social media post by India's mission in Kenya, the nation's delegation to the Informal Heads of Delegation (HODs) meeting in Nairobi was led by Adarsh Swaika, the Permanent Representative to UNEP and UN-Habitat.

The crucial meeting was held ahead of the upcoming session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.4), which is tasked with developing an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.

While reiterating India's constructive approach, Swaika underlined s...