Mahadevan, who said that trade unions had dropped their plans to hold a protest during Chirac's upcoming visit, also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of ignoring anti-Clemenceau pleas.
A bench comprising Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S H Kapadia has asked the Customs Department to file an affidavit in this regard.
AITUC Deputy Secretary H Mahadevan said his union would oppose attempts to make India what he called a 'dumping ground for richer countries' toxic waste'.
Two environmental activists took a boat and clambered on to the decommissioned French warship 'Clemenceau,' 50 nautical miles off the Egypt coast on Thursday, and halted the ship's progress towards the Suez canal.
Meanwhile, the Court said its earlier order restraining the ship from entering India's Exclusive Economic Zone continues.
France's highest court has ordered Le Clemenceau, the decommmissioned aircraft carrier, to stay out of Indian waters, pending a suit by environmental campaigners.
'Whether I die in Calcutta or in Paris, on a Wednesday or a Saturday, it does not matter, but you would not want me to come to India's door and then return to France without having visited India.' 'Either I will die or I will visit India!' Claude Arpi hails Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the Great War, a great man who loved India.
Greenpeace has urged the French government to remove the asbestos instead of sending the carrier to India.
Estimates of asbestos in the ship vary from 50 to 500 tonnes.
Environmental groups have protested the French government's decision to send the ship to India for dismantling.\n\n
Should Alang be a first world dumping ground? What kind of stand should the citizens of India take against the influx of hazardous wastes from other parts of the world?
The activists of various green groups called on the French authorities on Monday, urging them not to scrap the decommissioned French warship - Clemenceau - in ship-breaking yards in India.
The workers break ships with their bare hands. Their general living conditions after coming to these yards are extremely bad.
Thyagarajan said the estimate of asbestos on board the aircraft carrier varies from 50 to 500 tonne and that information on the ship was incomplete and unhelpful.
Thirteen Greenpeace activists were arrested while protesting outside the French Embassy in New Delhi Tuesday against France's decision to send a decommissioned battleship allegedly containing toxic wastes to India to be broken up for scrap. \n\n
A message board on hazardous waste dumping.
French Ambassador Dominique Gerard has said that the toxic waste can be taken back after dismantling.
The government asserted that the Central Pollution Control Board will inspect the ship
However, the government official maintained that the export of the ship would violate the Basel Convention only if it carried toxic cargo, which it does not.
After the French ship Clemenceau, Malaysian cruise liner S S Norway is now on the radar of Greenpeace who are opposing its entry into India for being dismantled on the shores of Gujarat.
'Nowhere amidst the efflorescence of 13 military bands, 16 marching contingents and 22 tableaux was there any hint that far from being a rich country of poor people, the closely guarded secret is that India is a poor country of extremely rich people,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
'Tilting at the Government in English in front of India may make him feel like Joan of Arc, but without a feel for Bharat he will merely be Don Quixote,' says S Muraleedharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
The perfunctory management of external affairs has left India's foreign policy establishment largely unprepared to manage the consequences of dramatic international developments, says Nitin Pai.
