|
|
|
Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-07-01
CONTENTS
[01] Karamanlis adamant on restoration of burned forestland
[01] Karamanlis adamant on restoration of burned forestland
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Sunday underlined that his
government will be absolute in the protection of fire-ravaged
forestland in the country, speaking in the northwest city of
Ioannina during an European People's Party (EPP) congress focusing
on the environment and days after wildfires scorched many parts of
the country.
"All of the forest land that was burned will automatically be
designated as land for reforestation; wherever there was a forest it
will be turned into a forest again, and I mean this," Karamanlis
said during his address at the event and a New Democracy
pre-congress.
"The wound that the fire on Mount Parnitha left is an injury to our
soul. We are obliged to work so that the damage is repaired, because
the environment is a debt we owe to our children," he said in
reference to the particularly devastating fire atop Mount Parnitha
earlier in the week, an area that hosts one of the few remaining
forests in the greater Athens area.
Captoin: PM Costas Karamanlis speaks at a ruling New Democracy
pre-congress event in the lake-side city of Ioannina, northwest
Greece, on Sunday, July 1, 2007. ANA-MPA / G. ANTONIOU.
|
