[CTRL] REUTERS Yugoslavia Faces Ecological Disaster, Group Warns

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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      Yugoslavia Faces Ecological Disaster, Group Warns
      01:42 a.m. Aug 15, 1999 Eastern
      BELGRADE (Reuters) - Yugoslavia faces ecological disaster from 11
weeks of
      NATO bombing unless urgent measures are taken in the worst affected
areas,
      an international humanitarian group was quoted Saturday as saying.
      The Beta news agency said a team of Russian, Austrian, Greek and
Swiss
      experts from the Focus organization visited Yugoslavia last month and

      carried out chemical and radiological analysis in towns that had
suffered
      most damage.
      ``The most dangerous ecological consequences arose from the bombing
of the
      industrial complex in Pancevo, the oil refinery in Novi Sad, the fuel

      depots in Smederevo and Pristina and the transformer stations in Nis
and
      Bor,'' the team said in its preliminary report.
      ``Based on the analysis results, the expert team concluded that the
      release of extremely toxic and carcinogenic substances poses an
extreme
      ecological threat in the FRY (Yugoslavia),'' it said.
      The report said that some eight tons of mercury had seeped out of a
      bomb-damaged electrolysis plant in Pancevo, near Belgrade, ``which
poses a
      danger to human health and the environment in the central regions of
the
      FRY and the Danube basin.''
      ``The release of petroleum, oil, diesel and artificial fertilizers
into
      the soil and water reservoirs has resulted in the contamination of
nearby
      facilities, towns, villages, water and mud in channels and rivers,
      including the Danube. This could result in changes in the ecological
      balance in the region and irreversible mutation in plants and
animals,''
      the report said.
      The team called for international organizations to resume their
activities
      in Yugoslavia as soon as possible in order to prevent ``a possible
      ecological collapse.''
      They also recommended that urgent measures be taken to seal off the
      polluted areas and prevent the transfer of toxic substances to
settlements
      and the flow of polluted sewage water into the Danube.
      It was the second such international team to visit Yugoslavia since
the
      end of the NATO air war. A United Nations team that arrived last
month
      said there was no evidence the bombing had caused an ecological
      catastrophe but called for urgent action to deal with some of the
damage.
      The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said Thursday it was
investigating
      possible damage to human health caused by NATO's use of shells tipped
with
      depleted uranium during the Kosovo conflict.
.


Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
Art  historian
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