Meteorologists of Belarus and Russia will discuss problems of informing the public in Novopolotsk

September 13, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. Meteorologists of Belarus and Russia will discuss issues of information provision on September 14-15 at a joint board meeting in Novopolotsk, the head of the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Alla Sholokhova, told a BELTA correspondent.

The main issue on the agenda of the 53rd meeting of the joint board of the Union State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of Environmental Pollution concerns the timely provision of necessary information to the population, state administration bodies, and enterprises of various sectors of the economy (housing and communal services, transport, energy) in order to minimize the consequences of natural disasters or prevent environmental catastrophes.

Participants will also discuss the formation and creation of a unified scientific, methodological, and organizational-administrative base of documents in their field of activity, as provided for by the Union program, the implementation and use of new technical software tools, and the state of surface waters in the transboundary sections of the Western Dvina and Dnieper rivers.

Among the participants of the event are the Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus Vladimir Tsalko, and representatives of interested departments of Belarus and Russia. It is expected that on September 14, the Deputy State Secretary of the Union State, Ivan Bambiza, will take part in the board meeting. -0-