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Kurdistan's parliament holds special session on World
Environment Day
5.6.2007
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June
5, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Iraq's
Kurdistan region’s parliament held on Tuesday a
special session on the occasion of World Environment
Day, in response to a call from Kurdish Minister of
Environment Mohammad Amin to discuss environmental
conditions in the region, a source from the
parliament said.
"The minister presented a report on environmental
conditions in the Kurdistan region in terms of
sources of pollution and other environmental risks,"
the media adviser from the parliament, Tareq Gohar,
said.
"The density of the population, lack of green areas
inside the cities, high number of vehicles, drainage
problems and garbage negatively affects the
environment in the region," Gohar also said.
"The biggest problem facing the region, in terms of
environment pollution, is garbage, because there are
no scientific ways to get rid of it," the official
noted.
"The minister affirmed the presence of 300 tons of
garbage everyday in the city of Erbil and around 200
tons in Sulaimaniyah," Gohar said.
The environment minister demanded that lawmakers
pressure the government to improve environmental
conditions, get rid of garbage in a scientific way,
and set up protected areas and green zones inside
the cities.
He also blamed the government for issuing the
investment law without any coordination with the
environment ministry.
"Local investors do not want to apply the ministry's
conditions in preserving the environment," the
minister affirmed. |
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A tourist destination in Kurdistan, Dukan
Dam-(Reservoir) near Sulaimaniyah city, Kurdistan
region |
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Speaker of the
parliament, Adnan al-Mufti, pledged to work to
protect the environment, urging other ministries to
apply the environmental conditions.
"We held a meeting with mosques preachers in Erbil
to help us raise environmental awareness among
citizens during Friday prayers," al-Mufti said.
World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5
June, is one of the principal vehicles through which
the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of
the environment and enhances political attention and
action.
World Environment Day was established by the United
Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening
of the Stockholm Conference on the Human
Environment.
VOI
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