“Green Network” association calls for the football players to save green plantations
15.11.2012 |Society| EuroBelarus Information Service,
“Green Network” association submits an appeal to the president of the Football Federation of Belarus (BFF) Siarhei Rumas about the building of the sports complex in Peoples’ Friendship Park.
Let us recall that this project presupposes the removal of more than 100 green plantations on the park territory, deployment of a car park and building of the sports complex itself.
In the appeal “Green Network” pays attention to the negative treatment of the project realization by the local community, as it directly affects their rights and legitimate interests, particularly the right to a favourable environment. It is said in the appeal that because of the “unfavorable environmental situation that has formed in the region of the sports complex construction cutting down of more than 100 green plantations in the Peoples’ Friendship Park car park deployment will lead to even bigger environmental pollution”. And as the given project is under the auspices of the BFF, the representatives of the “Green Network” address a request to Rumas S.M. for him to make everything possible so that the project customer and developer “Forever sport” calls back or moves the project to an alternative place where the constitutional rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the Belarusan citizens wouldn’t be infringed.
Andrei Ramantsou (a lawyer of the “Green Network”): I think that the building of the sports complex on the park territory is unacceptable, as it abuses the constitutional right of the citizens on a favorable environment and contradicts the norms of the building law. Moreover, the building of this project will lead to further ecologic tension in the area. So today’s appeal to the Football Federation of Belarus under the auspices of whom the realization of this building is planned is one more way to reach out to the leaders of the “Forever sport” for the purpose of their reconsideration of the intention to launch the project on the park territory”.
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