European Greens: It’s impossible to build nuclear power plant in undemocratic Belarus

The European Green Party has called upon Belarusian authorities to stop nuclear program development immediately.

At the 11th Council Meeting of the European Green Party in Malmö, Sweden, a resolution on nuclear power plant construction in Belarus was adopted, BelaPAN informs with a reference to the Belarusian Green Party.

In the resolution European Greens have called upon the Belarusian authorities to stop development of nuclear program immediately. To their mind, “the Government's arguments in favor of nuclear power plant construction in Belarus were not substantiated, and this, in a country that suffered so much from Chernobyl, is particularly irresponsible and shameful”.

The European Green Party notes that “under a non-democratic regime, such as that of Belarus, citizens’ scrutiny and control of the operation of the future NPP will be non-existent.”

It is stated in the resolution that “There were already a number of violations of the Aarhus Convention recorded during the decision-making process concerning the Hrodna NPP, namely that the public was not allowed to participate fully throughout the different stages of the process, as the Convention requires.”

The conclusions of the European Green Party are based upon independent researchers’ assessment.