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MINSK, 12 September (BelTA) – Belarus is taking part in the OSCE meeting in Prague to discuss international cooperation in the use of renewable energy resources on 11-13 September. The meeting is the final one within the 21^st OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum. The theme for 2013 is increasing stability and security, improving the environmental footprint of energy-related activities in the OSCE region, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.

The participants of the meeting are considering cooperation prospects with a view to increase the use of renewable energy resources and energy efficiency, as well as enhance cooperation between governmental and private sectors in reducing the impact of energy on environment. Participants of the meeting are also discussing issues related to the implementation of new and promising safe technologies in energy, development and application of the environmental legislation.

Partaking in the forum is a delegation of Belarus which comprises representatives of the Foreign Ministry, a permanent delegation of Belarus in the OSCE and the Belarusian national research center Ecology.

In its speech at the opening meeting of the OSCE conference in Prague the Belarusian delegation stressed the importance of strengthening the economic and environmental dimension of the OSCE, increasing efforts of the international community in the area of renewable energy resources, energy efficiency, new green technologies.

The attention of the participants of the meeting was drawn to Belarus’ initiatives in the area of expanding access to the use of renewable energy resources, including in the context of shifting to the green economy and sustainable development, approved in the relevant resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in 2012-2013.