21 April 2021
On April 20, 2021 A.M. Isachanka, National Coordinator for the achievement of the SDGs, made a welcome speech at the opening of the International online conference devoted to the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, which was organized on the initiative of the Ministry of Emergency and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In his speech, the National Coordinator of Belarus noted that, despite the fact that 35 years had passed since the largest man-made disaster, the Belarusians were still feeling its consequences.
The National Coordinator emphasized that almost a quarter of Belarus’ fertile territory, where a fifth of the country’s population lived, was contaminated by the release of radioactive substances; the accident became a national environmental disaster, and the republic struggles with its consequences to this day. A.M. Isachanka pointed out that since the beginning of the 1990s, five national programs have been carried out in the country with total financing amounting to about 20 milliard U.S. dollars; the percentage of their implementation amounts to about 3 percent of the national budget annually. He informed that in march of this year another state program for the next five years aimed at further overcoming of the Chernobyl accident consequences was adopted. More than 1 billion dollars of budgetary funds are planned for its implementation. The National Coordinator thanked the international community, especially the UNDP, for its contribution to the recovery of Chernobyl-affected regions, and called for an intensification of international cooperation on Chernobyl to help implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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