UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES PLAN FOR ACTION AT CHERNOBYL UNTIL 2016
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AGENCIES of the United Nations have released a draft action plan committing them to continue until 2016 protecting people and the environment from the fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF); the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); UN cultural and scientific organisation UNESCO; the UN scientific committee on the effects of atomic radiation (UNSCEAR); the World Bank; the Word Health Organisation; plus the Red Cross, have agreed to undertake ...
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