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Chernobyl Forum
Becomes Notable International Event
Belarusian Telegraph Agency – BELTA
Minsk, April 21, 2006
The international
conference “20 Years after Chernobyl. Strategy of Recovery and Sustainable
Development of the Affected Regions” held in Minsk and Gomel on April 19-21
has become a notable international event, head of the Department for
Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry
Elena Kupchina said at a press-conference today reviewing the results of the
three-day forum.
According to her, the
forum participants received an address of the President of the 60th Session
of the UN General Assembly in which the President underscored the necessity
to strengthen international solidarity in counteracting such man-made
disasters as the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
On the initiative of
the Republic of Belarus the UN General Assembly will hold a special sitting
on April 28 to mark the Chernobyl 20th anniversary, Elena Kupchina said.
Belarusian diplomats
jointly with Russian and Ukrainian colleagues are busy promoting the
national interests within the context of the international Chernobyl
cooperation by calling upon including the relevant items into a special
statement of the president of the UN General Assembly 60th session, the
official of the Belarusian foreign ministry noted. In particular, the
statement is supposed to comprise the Belarusian initiative to declare
2006-2016 a decade of recovery and sustainable development of the Chernobyl
affected regions. Belarus also intends to promote this initiative at the
61st session of the UN General Assembly.
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