Babruisk citizens start collecting signatures against construction of Nuclear Power Station
Alena Miadzvedzeva, a coordinator of the \\\\
On 13 April rrepresentatives of the democratic forces of Babruisk began collecting
signatures under the appeal to President Aliaksandr Lukashenka requiring to stop
building the nuclear power plant in Belarus and to restrict the access to all
types of radioactive substances into the territory of our country.
Alena Miadzvedzeva, a coordinator of the Speak
Truth! civil campaign, tells about the anti-nuclear ininitiative of the
Babruisk democrats:
“The branches of all political parties who are members of the Council of
Democratic Forces of the Babruisk district will take part in the collection of
signatures under the petition to terminate the construction of the NPP. It is
our collective decision. We believe that it is absolutely inappropriate to
carry out construction of the nuclear power plant in Belarus
while still suffering from consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The so-called “peaceful
nuclear energy” is very dangerous, which is proved once again by the accident
at the Japanese nuclear plant Fukushima-1.
According to Alena Miadzvedzeva, the Babruisk activists
also prepare to distribute anti-nuclear informational materials.
“We are also waiting for an answer from the Babruisk Town Executive Committee to
applications for the authorization of anti-nuclear pickets dedicated to an
anniversary of the Chernobyl
accident. The applications were filed by members of the Council, Viktar
Buzinayeu from the United Civil Party and Viktar Sekerzhytski from the Belarusian
Leftist Party Fair World. If the
pickets are authorized, representatives of all democratic organizations of
Babruisk will take part in them.”
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