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The Coordination Council of the Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing
Forces (SPS) factions of the State Duma expresses its protest
at the refusal of the State Duma to include an agreed candidate
from both the faction Sergei Mitrokhin inthe State Commission
for Control Over the Imports of Spent Nuclear Fuel into Russia.
The result of such a decision is the absence in the Commission
of at least one representative from the deputies expressing serious
doubts in the safety, transportation, preservation and recycling
of spent nuclear fuel, to propose to legally set a clear mechanism
of control over the technological procedures and financial operations
connected with the imports of spent nuclear fuel into Russia.
The [Duma] majority approving such a decision bestowed a doubtful
benefit upon President, rendering the functioning of the Commission
created in accordance with the Presidential Decree senseless.
Today's decision of the State Duma also confirms the worst apprehensions
and speculations about the intransparency of financial flows connected
with the imports of spent nuclear fuel as grounds for abuse.
Yabloko and the SPS regarded and still regard the laws on imports
of spent nuclear fuel into Russia as they are today as dangerous
for the future of the country. Recently in view of the growing
threat of nuclear terrorism this danger has increased many times.
Co-Chairmen of the Coordination Council
Sergei Ivanenko (Yabloko)
Viktor Pokhmelkin (SPS)
See also:
Nuclear
Waste Bill
Most of
the deputies of the State Duma refuse to take care of the nuclear
safety of the country
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