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RIA "OREANDA", April 5, 2004

YABLOKO to Propose Amendments to the Forestry Code

Moscow. By and large, the RF Ministry of Natural Resources and the Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko" will cooperate on environment protection and efficient nature management. Principal agreements on this issue were reached at the meeting of Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO Party Deputy Chairman and Yuri Trutnev, the RF Minister of Natural Resources.

Mitrokhin expressed the overall anxiety of non-governmental nature protection organizations to the adoption of a new version of the Forestry Code. The appeal of the Party to the Natural Resources Ministry includes the amendments devised by the leading ecological organizations of the Russian Federation. The amendments provide for elimination of restrictions for use of forests; banning of forest use in protected forests; elimination of the privatization of protected forests; toughening of demands to leasers of woodlots; keeping and widening of the networks of especially protected zones including those held by the Forest Fund.

In addition, party members propose that the Code stipulate introduction of obligatory state ecological expertise of forest organization. The amendments proposed by YABLOKO found some backing from the minister. The representatives of the party were invited to take part in amendment of the Code, claimed Mitrokhin. "We have cooperated with Yuri Trutnev ever since he won the Perm Mayor Elections with the support of the party. He will without a doubt consider our proposals thoroughly and take a constructive decision", Mitrokhin concluded.
Today Grigory Yavlinsky, the YABLOKO Party Chairman sent a similar appeal with proposed amendments to German Gref, the RF Minister for Economic Development and Trade, stated YABLOKO's press service.

 

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RIA "OREANDA", April 5, 2004

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