Translation of "atlantic environmental radioactivities unit " (English → French) :

A. whereas the OSCE is an integral part of the Euro-Atlantic, Eurasian security architecture and is distinguishable by: its comprehensive concept of security, including political-military, economic and environmental, and human dimensions; its broad membership, uniting countries from Vancouver to Vladivostok; and the variety and flexibility of its mechanisms,

A. whereas the OSCE is an integral part of the Euro-Atlantic, Eurasian security architecture and is distinguishable by: its comprehensive concept of security, including political-military, economic and environmental, and human dimensions; its broad membership, uniting countries from Vancouver to Vladivostok; and the variety and flexibility of its mechanisms,

K. whereas, as a follow up to the inquiry requested by the UN Secretary General last year, UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) announced on 5 January 2001 that it had found evidence of radioactivity at 8 of 11 sites tested in Kosovo (out of a total of 112 sites hit by DU rounds in 1999),

What consultations took place between the French Presidency and the United Kingdom government prior to the decision of France and the United Kingdom to abstain in the vote at the OSPAR Commission on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic, held in Denmark in June 2000, calling for the end to further radioactive discharges and a review of radioactive emissions as a matter of priority?

[Translation] Environmental groups argue that Canada cannot legally ban the import of radioactive waste from the United States and that Canadian nuclear authorities might find it beneficial to open their future site to foreign waste.

, and "Canada and the European Community .will join their efforts in the protection of the environment and the pursuit of sustainable development within each country as well as the preservation of the fragile global eco-system", Declare their intention to strengthen further their cooperation in the following areas: * multilateral negotiations of the conventions on climate change, on the conservation of biological diversity, and on a global forest convention or agreement; * preparations for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development currently underway; * the follow-up of the implementation of the Montreal Protocol ...[+++] on substances that deplete the ozone layer and the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal; * the cooperation with Eastern and Central Europe in the G-24 and in the framework of the UN Economic Commission for Europe; * the bilateral ministerial initiative to ensure conservation and rational management of living marine resources in the Northwest Atlantic; - 2 - * the pursuit of effective measures to address the pressing issue of marine pollution, particularly from land-based sources; * working together through UNCED to develop comprehensive principles for the conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests; * the closely linked issues of the development and use of economic and fiscal instruments in the implementation of environmental policy objectives; * the exchange of views on waste management, the implementation of environmental impact assessment, the development and application of environmental legislation and all matters of water quality.