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Belarus
Approves 2006-2010 State Program on Mitigating Chernobyl Consequences
January 13, 2006
The Government of Belarus has approved the state program on
mitigating the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe for 2006-2010. The
decision is contained in resolution No 29 of January 11, 2006 of the Council
of Ministers.
According to the Council of Ministers, the state program and
financing resources should be accurately defined in the annual undertakings
on mitigating the Chernobyl consequences.
A similar program was implemented in 2001-2005 featuring
large-scale projects to minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
At the same time incommensurability of the effect of the catastrophe and the
opportunities of the country to mitigate it communicated a necessity to
continue advancing in this direction. The idea is to provide socio-economic
and radiation-ecological rehabilitation of the contaminated territories. The
new program is a logic continuation of the Government policy to minimize the
consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
The success of the previous program made it possible to map
out the targets for the upcoming five-year period. There is a need to set up
conditions to do business without any radiation restrictions and keep on
scaling down health risks.
Belarusian Telegraph Agency |
