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Byelorussia and Chernobyl. A Delegation of Byelorussian SSR at the 45th Session of the UN General Assembly (1991)
| Author | Delegation of Byelorussian SSR |
| Date | 1991 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.30/25 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES EUROPE - GENERAL) |
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FOREWORD The 45th session of the United Nations General Assembly was in many respects unusual for Byelorussia. On December 21, 1990 the Plenary meeting of the session adopted by consensus Resolution A (45) 190 entitled "International co-operation to address and mitigate the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant". Perhaps it is the first concrete resolution responding to the vital interests of the Byelorussian nation initiated and actively promoted by the BSSR. It left no one impartial in Byelorussia. The Resolution crowned preparatory but an extremely important stage of intensive activities, aimed at providing a legal groundwork for an active participation of the international community in tackling extremely difficult problems related to further studying and minimizing long-term effects of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. It is hardly possible to overestimate the importance of international co-operation in coping with these problems. This is becoming increasingly clear now, five years after Chernobyl, when only few deny that it was not a mere technical breakdown which could have been swiftly eliminated but the world’s largest nuclear technological disaster fraught with serious and Unpredictable long-term consequences. However, until recently the international community knew little of the true scale of these consequences. There was a diversity of views on the character and goals of such an international co-operation.
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