A coordination council and laboratory in Serbia will start its work in a month. It will study the consequences of the NATO bombing, which the alliance committed in the course of the aggression on Yugoslavia in 1999. This was stated by the Minister of Environmental Protection Goran Trivan to the Belgrade information agency Tanyug.
According to Trivan, the decision to create such an organization was made following a meeting of representatives of the ministries of the environment, defense and health, scientists and doctors will be engaged in research. The minister ruled out the possibility of politicizing such work, and also stressed that it should be conducted in the territory of the disputed province of Kosovo and Metohija.
Specialists are to find out the consequences of bombardment of depleted uranium, as well as strikes on chemical and oil objects that took place 19 years ago. At the same time, international legal practice will be applied.
The Minister noted that to accomplish the task, there is no need to create new laboratories from scratch, since it is a question of the coordinated work of different laboratories already existing in Serbia. Studies will be conducted thoroughly, most likely, it will take more than one year.