The visit of the delegate Secretary General of the UN Kenzo Oshima that has started today can change the policy in the area of liquidation of the Chernobyl catastrophe’s repercussions. During the visit and meeting with Lukashenka it was said that the negative results of the catastrophe were exaggerated.
On April 1 the state Belarusian TV channel severely criticized the actions of the FITR. The activists of this trade union federation “on March 28 picketed Belarusian Embassy in Moscow, protesting against violations of trade unions’ rights in Belarus”. In the statement of the Belarusian trade unions they underline that “the familiar set of absolutely unsubstantiated accusations was voiced against the FITR. These accusations are based on lies, libel, misrepresentation of facts”. The authors of the declaration demand the Belarusian government, which, according to the Belarusian trade union, prompted disinformation of the citizens of the country, an official refutation of the “unjustified facts about FITR”.
Harmless Chernobyl?
“Vremya Novostej”
The visit of the delegate Secretary General of the UN Kenzo Oshima that has started today can change the policy in the area of liquidation of the Chernobyl catastrophe’s repercussions. During the visit and meeting with Lukashenka it was said that the negative results of the catastrophe were exaggerated.
Some time ago publication of the part of the UN report has provoked a scandal in Belarusian and Western mass media. The UN experts were accused of promoting interests of atomic lobby. The UN group in Belarus even had to make a special statement, saying that the report was misunderstood. As the newspaper “Vremya Novostej” was explained in the UN deputation, cessation of Chernobyl programs is out of question. “The question of altering regulations of distributing funds allotted for elimination of the Chernobyl consequences will be discussed. 15 years has passed, and the factor of donors’ tiredness exists. We would like to draw their attention to the Chernobyl catastrophe again”. The recommendations are to lessen the amount of humanitarian aid that is handed over immediately to the dwellers of the contaminated regions. The money left would by allotted for reconstruction and development of industrial enterprises in Chernobyl area. “The matter is, not only money should be collected, but tangible social and economic changes should follow in the contaminated regions”.
In Belarus the program of resettlement of the dwellers of the contaminated regions was stopped in 2000. Instead of that, the government declared new policy – the policy of returning people to the Chernobyl zone and restoration of the economy in this region. As a result, according just to the official data, more than 500 settlements received products which radioactive contamination level considerably exceeded the normal one.
As the chair of the parliamentary commission on Chernobyl Vitaly Kulik admitted, he had heard many times from native and foreign colleagues the opinion that the UN report was created to suit interests of atomic lobby, which is allegedly interested in understating dangerous results of atomic catastrophe. The head of the fund “To Chernobyl Children” Henadz Hrushevoy named the new tendencies “alarming”. “Atomic lobby has great resources and can afford to invest a part of them if guaranteed that the development of atomic power engineering would not be hindered”.
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