ANKARA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- Turkey is getting ready to assume its responsibilities as a party to the UN convention and take important steps on Kyoto Protocol on climate change, local newspaper Turkish Daily News reported on Monday.

    "The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol are the most effective tools for sustainable development. Turkey has decided to take important steps on Kyoto Protocol in the near future, " said the report, quoting President Abdullah Gul at the annual conference of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) held in the Aegean resort town of Bodrum over the weekend.

    "Developing countries should do their best on the way to sustainable development and take lessons from industrialized countries," said Gul, adding that industrialized countries should take developing countries' concerns and expectations into account.

    "It is the common responsibility of all countries to act rapidly and resolutely against global threats such as global warming and climate change," Gul said, adding the conference of the WWF would yield favorable results on global climate change, the most vital social and economic problem.

    WWF, which has more than six million supporters in over 100 countries, has been holding its annual conferences in different countries every year to set international priorities and approaches to wildlife protection.

    More than 200 chairpersons and high-level officials of WWF from 56 countries discussed global climate change at this year's meeting in Bodrum.