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RA Nature Protection Minister Artsvik Minasyan considers corruption to be one of the main risks in nature protection, as he declared at the final conference for 2016.
”First of all, there are system corruption risks, the enforcement of relevant legislation is not satisfactory, ecosystem approach to environmental conservation and management of natural resources is missing, there is no economic value assessment system of natural capital and ecosystem services, there is no information management system of unified state monitoring of environment and natural resources, the funds raised from soil management and environmental fees have low addressability, the efficiency of state environmental supervision is extremely low, basin management is carried out with low effectiveness, state-private sector cooperation is at low level and management systems of specially protected areas of nature are currently inefficient,” Artsvik Minasyan said.
The Minister noted that as a consequence of the aforementioned the Ministry can’t create comprehensive conditions for the citizens to enjoy their statutory rights to live in healthy and safe environment.
According to the Nature Protection Minister, ineffective management of natural resources doesn’t promote economic growth and increase in citizens’ welfare. Artsvik Minasyan mentioned that the enhancement of environmental supervision supposes establishing a unified inspection body, which will exercise comprehensive soil supervision.
December 28, 2016 at 15:55