BelTA, Ukrinform to arrange video conference on Chernobyl
Baku, April 26 (AZERTAC). The Belarusian news agency BelTA and the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform will arrange a video conference “Chernobyl: 25 Years of Overcoming” on 27 April. The project is timed to the anniversary of the Chernobyl tragedy, BelTA reports.
It will be the first project of the kind in practice of Belarus` and Ukraine`s top news agencies. The video conference will connect Minsk and Kyiv. Representatives of government agencies of the two countries, public organizations, specialists and mass media will be invited to discuss Chernobyl-related problems during the video conference.
Both Belarus and Ukraine have been affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Each country has its own experience of overcoming the consequences. What are peculiarities of these efforts? What are main areas and prospects? What steps taken after the disaster were justified, what steps are inadvisable and why? What is the most important result of the 25 post-Chernobyl years? Will the Belarusians and the Ukrainians be able to get rid of the Chernobyl victim syndrome? These and other matters will be discussed during the video conference.
The Belarusian side will be represented by Anatoly Zagorsky, First Deputy Head of the Department for Containing Chernobyl Catastrophe Consequences of the Belarusian Emergencies Ministry, and Zoya Trofimchik, Director of a branch of the Belarusian department of the Russian-Belarusian Information Center for Chernobyl Catastrophe Consequences. As far as the Ukrainian side is concerned, Vladimir Kholosha, Chairman of the State Agency for Managing the Exclusion Zone, has been invited along with Yuri Andreyev, First Deputy Healthcare Minister, President of the youth public organization “Chernobyl Union of Ukraine”, former Energy Minister Vitaly Sklyarov, former Director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Sergei Parashin.
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