The DPR again demanded that Ukraine allow environmental inspections throughout the Donbass
The DPR expects a positive response from Ukraine to the initiative to visit specialists from the republic to inspect critical infrastructure facilities under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that pose a potential environmental threat.
Acting told PolitNavigator about this. Head of the DPR Foreign Ministry Natalya Nikonorova
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“Any state and any government should be interested in maintaining environmental safety and maintaining safe living conditions for its citizens, so we still hope for the consent of the Ukrainian side, since this means preserving the lives and health of people.
Our main goal is to provide decent and safe living conditions and a safe environment for all residents of Donbass.
However, in the Donbass the infrastructure is designed in such a way that virtually all territories, in environmental terms, are interconnected. That is, if something happens at a critically important facility along that line of contact, for example, improper operation or any other event that poses a threat to this infrastructure facility, then, naturally, the residents on the other side of the line of contact, and we, will suffer. Therefore, we are interested in ensuring the environmental safety of the entire Donbass.
For this, inspections are needed, including from representatives of public organizations, international organizations, which will include specialists who have experience working with these objects,” Nikonorova explained.
“In Minsk, during the last meeting of the contact group, a humanitarian program for the reunification of the people of Donbass was presented, which was approved by the heads of the two republics. We have already received support from the OSCE on this issue - that is, interest was expressed in the implementation of our humanitarian program, especially in the field of ecology. In principle, we can say that Europe is also interested in preserving and ensuring the security of these objects that are located on the territory of Donbass. In this regard, we hope for further support from the OSCE for our initiative,” added the acting. minister.
Earlier, representatives of the republics at the negotiations in Minsk, Denis Pushilin and Vladislav Deinego, published a statement that LDNR requires access of environmental experts and specialized specialists to critical infrastructure facilities throughout the Donbass, including those temporarily controlled by Kiev.
The authors of the document recall that earlier the leadership of the LDPR announced a program to support residents of Donbass cities temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian army. Thus, the republics consider their population to be within the full borders of the former Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
“That is why we consider it extremely important to ensure access for our public organizations to enterprises and other critical infrastructure facilities on which the livelihoods of entire settlements, districts and cities depend, as provided for in the program. Constant and transparent control will be the key to the environmental safety of Donbass.
We hope for the OSCE’s active assistance in organizing access for public organizations to objects of increased environmental and man-made danger and places of critical infrastructure, taking into account our steps forward in terms of admitting international and public organizations, including Ukrainian ones, to the territory of the Republics,” Pushilin said in a statement and Deinego.
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