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03-11-2009, 06:30 PM
Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal has accused PRSC deputies Mario Jose Fernandez Savinon, president of the Environmental Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and his colleague Sergio Cedeno of lying and of trying to cover up for individual interests in the controversial case of the National Park of the East, as reported in Listin Diario. He said that on two occasions the Ministry of Environment had established its position on the proposal to change limits of the park in writing, but that the deputies had ignored this. He reaffirmed his statement that the community of Boca de Yuma is not within the park limits and said that the two deputies misled other deputies to vote for the bill by telling them that the Ministry of Environment had not responded to their inquiries on 11 Dec 2008 and 26 Feb 2009, establishing that the bill was not necessary on the grounds that Boca de Yuma was not part of the park area.
"They said that they had not received them, which means that when lies are told it is because there are dark interests, they want to deceive someone and we want to directly express our serious concern because deputies were deceived by the promoters of this project and directly by the president of the environmental commission of the Chamber of Deputies," he said.
He called Dominicans to be alert, saying it was a serious crime to lie to the people in order to appropriate protected areas that are part of the heritage of humanity and of the Dominican people. He said that the National Park of the East is taking the final steps to be declared a UNESCO world natural heritage site, and despite this individual interests insist on appropriating its land for private resale.
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"They said that they had not received them, which means that when lies are told it is because there are dark interests, they want to deceive someone and we want to directly express our serious concern because deputies were deceived by the promoters of this project and directly by the president of the environmental commission of the Chamber of Deputies," he said.
He called Dominicans to be alert, saying it was a serious crime to lie to the people in order to appropriate protected areas that are part of the heritage of humanity and of the Dominican people. He said that the National Park of the East is taking the final steps to be declared a UNESCO world natural heritage site, and despite this individual interests insist on appropriating its land for private resale.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)