The State Control Committee of Belarus /SCC/ criticised the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus for the sanitation project it carried out in respect of Lake Naroch.

As SCC Chairman Zenon Lomat said on December 4 at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of Belarus, the Lake Naroch sanitation programme was adopted in the country. However, the funds allocated for this purpose are not utilised. Moreover, no effective lake cleaning methods were devised. According to Zenon Lomat, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection does not effectively cooperate with the Belarusian scientists in this field.

According to Mikhail Myasnikovich, the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, scientists of the Academy put forward several proposals concerning improvement of the ecologic situation at the lake to the Ministry. However, these proposals were not supported.

At the same time Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus Leonty Khoruzhik noted that no effective methods of the fight against certain species of insects polluting lakes had been found in the world. That is why all the sanitation measures, which were taken, produced no result yet.

On December 4 the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Belarus discussed draft resolutions of the Council of Ministers “On approving the national strategy for development and management of environmental territories by 2015”, “On approving a scheme of rational disposing sensitive natural territories till January 1, 2015” and a draft decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus “On approving the governmental programme on developing the system of sensitive natural territories for 2008-2012”. All the documents should be finalised.

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