Events

MINSK, 24 October (BelTA) - Belarus plans to intensify cooperation with Sweden on environmental matters, BelTA learned from the website of the Belarusian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

On 23 October the ministry played host to a meeting between Belarus’ Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Andrei Khudyk and Ambassador of Sweden to Belarus Kristina Johannesson. The parties discussed the Belarusian-Swedish cooperation in environmental protection and promising areas of its development.

Andrei Khudyk expressed readiness to strengthen and expand cooperation with Sweden in various areas of environmental activities. The focus was on Sweden’s waste management regulations, the prevention of the burial of secondary material resources, the construction of plants to process household waste. Belarus is ready to share its experience in preserving biological and landscape diversity.