俄罗斯建议联合国和世界卫生组织调查“巴尔干综合征”
路透社莫斯科消息 俄罗斯近日发表声明说，联合国和世界卫生组织应该着手调查北约贫铀武器导致维持和平部队成员患病的事件。放射性物质贫铀在维和部队当中导致了癌症，被称为“巴尔干综合征”。
俄外交部长伊格·伊万诺夫在会吾了新任科索沃联合国行政首脑汉斯·哈克鲁普后提出，目前最重要的是要进行一个独立、客观的，能够达到联合国及其它专业团体如国际原子能机构，世界卫生组织专家水平的检查。检查贫铀弹的真正的危险水平。
俄罗斯在科索沃约有3,000维和士兵，在波斯尼亚约有1,000人。一方面俄政府正为其服役人员的健康感焦急，另一方面但是又重申，莫斯科到现在为止还没有找到他们的部队因铀得病的证据。
北约在几个欧洲国家政府越来越大的压力下开始面对有关贫铀危害的声明。意大利和法国也呼吁北约对这一事件进行调查，而葡萄牙已开始对其1,000名在巴尔干服役过的军事和民间人员进行体检。
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Russia Suggests UN, WHO Check ‘Balkans Syndrome‘
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) should help check claims that NATO (news - web sites) weapons using depleted uranium have caused illness among peacekeepers.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov raised the uranium issue--dubbed ``Balkans syndrome‘‘--over suspicions the radioactive material has caused cancer among peacekeepers. He spoke after meeting the new head of the UN administration for Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup.
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``The main thing is to have independent, objective checks at the level of experts of the United Nations and other specialist bodies, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organisation,‘‘ Ivanov told reporters.
He said such checks should determine the ``real level of risk‘‘ from the depleted uranium. Russia has some 3,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo and around 1,000 in Bosnia.
He said Russia was worried about the health of its servicemen but reiterated official statements of last week that Moscow had so far found no evidence its troops were ill due to uranium.
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NATO has come under increasing pressure from several European governments over the claims about depleted uranium.
Italy and France have also called for NATO to examine the claims and Portugal has begun testing 10,000 military and civilian personnel who have served in the Balkans.
Ivanov met Haekkerup as the Dane prepares to take over from Frenchman Bernard Kouchner on January 15 as head of the transitional post-war UN administration in Kosovo.
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He said the discussions were a chance for Russia to express some of its concerns about the way Kosovo was being run but pledged Moscow‘s continued support for the mission.
``We are very much interested in the success of this mission. It will determine not only the settlement of the situation in Kosovo itself but also the stabilisation of the Balkans in general,‘‘ Ivanov had said at the start of the talks.
Russia has several times expressed worries that international troops are not doing enough to clamp down on violence by what it calls Albanian extremists against the 75,000-strong Serb minority in the breakaway Yugoslav province.
Russia also criticised the UN administration after it held municipal elections in October boycotted by the local Serbs.
Russia has traditionally supported Yugoslavia, although Moscow last year helped smooth the transition to power of President Vojislav Kostunica in his stand-off with authoritarian predecessor Slobodan Milosevic., http://www.100md.com
俄外交部长伊格·伊万诺夫在会吾了新任科索沃联合国行政首脑汉斯·哈克鲁普后提出，目前最重要的是要进行一个独立、客观的，能够达到联合国及其它专业团体如国际原子能机构，世界卫生组织专家水平的检查。检查贫铀弹的真正的危险水平。
俄罗斯在科索沃约有3,000维和士兵，在波斯尼亚约有1,000人。一方面俄政府正为其服役人员的健康感焦急，另一方面但是又重申，莫斯科到现在为止还没有找到他们的部队因铀得病的证据。
北约在几个欧洲国家政府越来越大的压力下开始面对有关贫铀危害的声明。意大利和法国也呼吁北约对这一事件进行调查，而葡萄牙已开始对其1,000名在巴尔干服役过的军事和民间人员进行体检。
, 百拇医药
Russia Suggests UN, WHO Check ‘Balkans Syndrome‘
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) should help check claims that NATO (news - web sites) weapons using depleted uranium have caused illness among peacekeepers.
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov raised the uranium issue--dubbed ``Balkans syndrome‘‘--over suspicions the radioactive material has caused cancer among peacekeepers. He spoke after meeting the new head of the UN administration for Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup.
, 百拇医药
``The main thing is to have independent, objective checks at the level of experts of the United Nations and other specialist bodies, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organisation,‘‘ Ivanov told reporters.
He said such checks should determine the ``real level of risk‘‘ from the depleted uranium. Russia has some 3,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo and around 1,000 in Bosnia.
He said Russia was worried about the health of its servicemen but reiterated official statements of last week that Moscow had so far found no evidence its troops were ill due to uranium.
, 百拇医药
NATO has come under increasing pressure from several European governments over the claims about depleted uranium.
Italy and France have also called for NATO to examine the claims and Portugal has begun testing 10,000 military and civilian personnel who have served in the Balkans.
Ivanov met Haekkerup as the Dane prepares to take over from Frenchman Bernard Kouchner on January 15 as head of the transitional post-war UN administration in Kosovo.
, 百拇医药
He said the discussions were a chance for Russia to express some of its concerns about the way Kosovo was being run but pledged Moscow‘s continued support for the mission.
``We are very much interested in the success of this mission. It will determine not only the settlement of the situation in Kosovo itself but also the stabilisation of the Balkans in general,‘‘ Ivanov had said at the start of the talks.
Russia has several times expressed worries that international troops are not doing enough to clamp down on violence by what it calls Albanian extremists against the 75,000-strong Serb minority in the breakaway Yugoslav province.
Russia also criticised the UN administration after it held municipal elections in October boycotted by the local Serbs.
Russia has traditionally supported Yugoslavia, although Moscow last year helped smooth the transition to power of President Vojislav Kostunica in his stand-off with authoritarian predecessor Slobodan Milosevic., http://www.100md.com