ADDRESS
20 years have elapsed since the accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station on April 26, 2006. It is the largest technogenic-radiating catastrophe of 20th century on scales of damage and consequences.
In connection with tragic date, the heads of the states-participants of the Commonwealth of Independent States address the people of the states-participants of Commonwealth, to the states-members of the United Nations Organization, to world community with a reminder on consequences of the Chernobyl failure.
As a result of failure, millions people have tested a shock from disaster which hardly realized and from which could not be protected. Many families have lost habitation, have lost source of existence, they had to change inhabitancy and the way of life.
Scales of accident could become immeasurably greater, if not courage and selflessness of hundreds thousand of participants of liquidation of sequences of failure on the Chernobyl atomic power station - our compatriots. Risking their life, health, they have performed their duty and protected the people from fatal influence and the further distribution of radiation.
Despite of extreme cost-is-no-object measures accepted without delay of accident and the next years, the Chernobyl atomic power station continues to remain a potential source of danger in the center of the Europe. Minimization of this threat in the near future and on the basis of the newest technologies is equitable to the general interests. In this connection, it is necessary a centralized attraction of scientific and technical and financial potential of all world community to the problem of increase of safety of the object “Shelter.
The major problem of overcoming of consequences of this terrible accident at the present stage is complex radiating and social and economic rehabilitation of the suffered territories. Now, the suffered regions are in especially complex conditions caused by destruction of ecological infrastructure, outflow of manpower, demographic problems. The condition of environment after failure on the Chernobyl atomic power station limits the conditions of ability to live. Special alarm causes the state of health both living on the suffered territories, and liquidators of failure.
Achievement of overall objective of rehabilitation is steady development of the suffered regions and their real economic revival - demands the new approaches, scientifically proved decisions, significant material inputs and, as consequence, financial, technical and scientific assistance from the international community.
Realizing unprecedented consequences of Chernobyl failure, its influence on many generations, giving a tribute to memory of the killed and lost health as a result of accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station, we declare the determination to put maximum efforts for minimization of its consequences.
The Address has been adopted on August 26, 2005
in the city of Kazan at the summit of heads of the CIS states.
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