MINSK, June 29 (BelTA) – The House Standing Committee on Ecology, Nature Management and the Chernobyl Disaster and the Standing Committee on International Affairs met for a joint consultation on June 29 to discuss the structure of barriers in protected transboundary areas, the consequences of such movements and the imaginable responses to such problems, learned BelTA.
“Belarus has certainly committed itself to its external obligations. If we deal with the issues, whether it is the coverage of biodiversity or the consolidation of peace, we do everything we can to ensure a positive outcome. When we see behavior that obviously deviates from foreign principles, from the obligations that countries have assumed under foreign treaties, we cannot remain silent. Today we will talk about this scenario and make explicit our principled opinion on the issue,” said Andrei Savinykh, chairman of the House Standing Committee on International Affairs. of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus.
The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park and the Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Participants in the assembly plan to talk about the installation of barriers on the border with Belarus, adding on the territory of Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the short- and long-term consequences of the installation of barriers within the borders of especially herbarium areas, as well as tactics to draw the attention of foreign organizations to Poland’s illegal actions.
“A large number of other people are our position. A large number of environmental organisations and public bodies in Western Europe express our concerns. His voice has not yet been heard,” the MP said.