Debate - The Bistroe Case, at UNESCO

This week, Romania plays a new diplomatic card in his try of stopping the works for the Bistroe channel.

Danube Delta’s governor and some other dignitaries in the Ministry of Environment and Water Managing try to convince the UNESCO officials that the Ukrainians project is an extreme pest for the Danube Delta.

HOPES. "The "Man and Biodiversity" UNESCO Programme Secretariat has a meeting this week in Paris, in order to analyse, among others, the unnumbered notices forwarded by Romania concerning the Bistroe issue. It is one of the most important international organisms that are able to help us in our measure of obtaining the decision of cancelling the works for the Bistroe channel. The Secretariat will formulate its conclusion at the end of the meeting, a document which will contain its point of view and some recommendations concerning our complaint. I was hoping that, as it happened every year until now, we would be rendered justice and the Ukrainians would be forced to stop their works", stated yesterday, for Jurnalul National, the Danube Delta governor, Virgil Munteanu. Sources inside the Ministry of Environment state the Romanian side hopes on obtaining a statement through which UNESCO would oppressively criticise the Bistroe project. The Ukrainians also sent yesterday a delegation in Paris, most probably in order to support, as it has happened until now, the fact that all Romania’s criticism has no basis.