She wanted to ensure it was there. She was also concerned about a number of other things, including the loss of the national health products research laboratory, the elimination of the drug research bureau, attempts to gut the food research lab, threats and intimidation of scientists, cost recovery policies, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, the double standard for drugs and natural health products and the general lack ...[+++]of openness, consistency and accountability.

F. whereas although Belarus has no nuclear power, 23% of its territory was contaminated to a level above 1 C:/km,where 2 million people lived in 3 668 towns and villages (including 500 000 children), and 1.6 million hectares of land and almost 1.7 million hectares of forest were contaminated with caesium-137; whereas since then only 135 000 people have been evacuated and only 260 000 hectares of land have been excluded from food production; the cost to Belarus is estimated at $ 235 billion, or 32 times its national budget in 1985; Belarus still spends 20% of its national budget on the consequences, while it is estimated that 300% is ...[+++]needed, so that the state has forced or allowed people back into the heavily contaminated regions, all of which has contributed to the strain on democracy in that country, including the repression of scientists working in this field,