Specialists from 23 countries will discuss legal aspects of sustainable forest development in Europe in Minsk

September 18, Minsk /BELTA/. Scientists and specialists from 23 countries will gather in Minsk for the 14th International Symposium on Legal Aspects of Sustainable Forest Development in Europe, the press service of the Ministry of Forestry informed BELTA. The symposium will begin its work on September 19. More than 100 scientists and specialists in the field of forestry from Belarus, Austria, Japan, Finland, Serbia, Moldova, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Sweden, Russia, Iran, Hungary, Germany, and other countries will take part in it. Along with other participants, Belarusian specialists will deliver reports in which they will talk about the forest legislation of the republic, ways to improve it, and will try to identify solutions to conflicts between economic and environmental needs in the country's forest legislation. Belarusian scientists will also raise a number of topical issues. The symposium will run until September 21. On this day, the forum participants will visit the Glubokskoye Experimental Forestry Enterprise, where they will learn about the Belarusian model of forestry, forest cultivation technologies, forest protection and conservation, as well as other production processes. -0-