Russian Official: Documents on Waste Export Fake
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An official has denied that Russia gave the green light to send Lebanon's waste to a Russian province, describing a document received by the authorities in Moscow as fake.
“The document that we received from the embassy of the Lebanese Republic with regards to our agreement to receive the waste is fake and forged,” the Tass Russian news agency quoted Nikolai Gudkov, press officer at the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, as saying.
The document has “a fake and unregistered signature,” he said.
“After we discovered the forgery, we urged law enforcement agencies to pursue all participants in these illegal businesses,” Gudkov added.
The Russian official also told the agency that the export of waste is subject to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal.
“Several complicated measures” should be taken before the export of the garbage, he said. “The foreign country should deliver a memorandum to the authority that is tasked with managing the Convention and not to the Russian Environment Ministry as it has been mentioned in the fake document.”
Lebanon's trash management crisis erupted in July 2015 when the Naameh landfill that received the waste of Beirut and Mount Lebanon was closed.
The government's failure to find alternatives led to the piling up of garbage on the streets and in random locations, which raised health and environmental concerns and sparked unprecedented street protests against the entire political class.
In December, the cabinet approved the export plan with representatives of Britain’s Chinook and Holland’s Howa BV, which withdrew afterward.
16 February 2016, 07:56
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Once Putin's mafia friends get their cut, the document will become legal and authentic.
16 February 2016, 08:02
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I wonder where you are and how you are dear flamethrower loyal to iran as you lay in pieces and tranquility at your final resting place in Aleppo. RIP shia hero!
16 February 2016, 10:11
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It is mind boggling this government is going to spend USD 500 million to export trash. The plan was approved unanimously by this cabinet so no one is innocent. Yet, various political parties were for pure internal consumption screaming how Sukleen was robbing the lebanese people and the treasury. Where is the change and reform now?
16 February 2016, 10:30
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dear lebjack: I respect you and value your opinion. I have 2 questions for you: 1) Do you think my arabic is improving? and 2) do you know why flamethrower was banned?
16 February 2016, 10:58
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do we have excess water? 70% of households do not have government provided water and depend on wells.
16 February 2016, 10:40
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Those of you pointing the finger at one politician and not the other, makes you a complete idiots. You think hundreds of millions of dollars to export waste, instead of building waste management plants and hiring thousands of people makes sense??
Every politician in Lebanon is making a killing here. And if you think your beloved za3im is any different, makes you the trash that should be recycled.
16 February 2016, 10:41
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You are correct regarding the first portion, add entire government to that equation.
16 February 2016, 16:41
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4 hours ago The Russian Ambassador said the Russian authorities should approve the export of waste.
16 February 2016, 16:55
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are you guys comparing the Lebanese culture to the Japanese culture? Now that is a laugh.You think a Lebanese would do what a Japanese citizen would do for their country and environment? this is a bigger laugh.
