Lithuania Highlights Belarusian NPP-Related Risks at UNECE/WHO Event
A Lithuanian delegation, headed by Vice Minister of Healthcare Ms Jadvyga Zinkevičiūtė, is participating in the Fourth Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes. The meeting is organized jointly by the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the World Health Organization in Geneva on 14-16 November. The Lithuanian delegation is comprised of representatives of Ministries of Health, Environment, and Foreign Affairs, as well as of the Lithuanian Geological Survey, and Health Education and Disease Prevention Centre. Speaking in a panel discussion in the high-level segment of the event, an expert from the Delegation, MFA diplomat Agnija Tumkevič, highlighted the threats posed by the Astravets nuclear power plant, currently under construction in Belarus, to the thermal, hydrological and radiologic balance in the basin of Neris and Nemunas Rivers and in the Baltic Sea.
