Environment group Greenpeace, which led the fight to prevent Clemenceau from entering India, welcomed the decision.

“President Chirac’s decision shows how governments, when confronted with the truth and pressurized by public opinion, take corrective action,” it said in a statement issued from the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

“This incident should set the precedent not just for ship-breaking, but for all toxic trade, from electronic waste to biomedical wastes and beyond.”

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