Environmental Organizations Can Be Tool for Political Pressure- Deputy
Posted on: Thursday, 21 July 2005, 21:00 CDT
MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - Chairman of the State Duma Environmental Committee Vladimir Grachyov has called on environmental organizations funded with foreign money to be more careful.
"Let them [foreigners] finance the planting of trees, forests or something else. It is inadmissible to fund political pressure groups from abroad," he said on Thursday.
The media has claimed that plans are afoot to change or even abolish environmental inspection laws, Grachyov said.
"Neither our committee nor the government plan to abolish environmental inspections - this is an official statement," he said.
At the same time, environmental inspections should not be used as "a tool of political pressure on the government, the national administration and the State Duma," he said.
The case of the East Siberia-Pacific oil pipeline is an illustrative example of such pressure, Grachyov said. This pipeline is vital for Russia, as it will give it an access to Southeast Asian markets, he said. "Certain foreign monopolies and large transnational companies do not want that to happen, so they are using various forces to exercise political pressure," he said.
Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English
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