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SUMMARY:International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se
DESCRIPTION:\n	(A/RES/71/125)\n\n\n\n	An explosion at the Chernobyl Nucl
	ear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the
	 Soviet Union\, now the territories of Belarus\, Ukraine and the Russian F
	ederation. Nearly 8.4 million people in the three countries were exposed t
	o the radiation.\n\n\n\n	The Soviet Government acknowledged the need for i
	nternational assistance only in 1990. That same year the General Assembly 
	adopted resolution 45/190\, calling for “international cooperation to ad
	dress and mitigate the consequences at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
	.” That was the start of the United Nations' involvement in the Chernoby
	l recovery. An Inter-Agency Task Force was established to coordinate the C
	hernobyl co-operation. In 1991 the UN created the Chernobyl Trust Fund - c
	urrently under the management of the Office for the Coordination of Humani
	tarian Affairs (OCHA). Since 1986\, the UN family of organizations and maj
	or NGOs have launched more than 230 different research and assistance proj
	ects in the fields of health\, nuclear safety\, rehabilitation\, environme
	nt\, production of clean foods and information.\n\n\n\n	In 2002 the United
	 Nations announced a shift in the Chernobyl strategy\, with a new focus on
	 a long-term developmental approach. UNDP and its regional offices in the 
	three affected countries took the lead in the implementation of the new st
	rategy. There is still a great deal of work that needs to be done in the a
	ffected region. To provide support to international\, national and public 
	programmes targeted at the sustainable development of these territories\, 
	in 2009 UN launched the International Chernobyl Research and Information N
	etwork (ICRIN). \n\n\n\n	On 8 December 2016 the United Nations General As
	sembly adopted a resolution designating 26 April as International Chernoby
	l Disaster Remembrance Day. In its resolution\, the General Assembly recog
	nized that three decades after the disaster there remains persistent serio
	us long-term consequences and that the affected communities and territorie
	s are experiencing continuing related needs. The General Assembly invites 
	all Member States\, relevant agencies of the United Nations system and oth
	er international organizations\, as well as civil society\, to observe the
	 day.\n\n\n\n	Recent Developments\n\n	The completion of the placement of t
	he new safe confinement over the old shelter was a major milestone achieve
	d in 2019\, with €2.2 billion provided by over 45 donor nations through 
	funds managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBR
	D). The new safe confinement was handed over to the Government of Ukraine 
	on 10 July 2019. The scope of the project in terms of international cooper
	ation is one of the largest ever seen in the field of nuclear safety.\n\n\
	n\n	Since the United Nations agencies have shifted their focus from humani
	tarian assistance to prevention\, recovery\, remediation and capacity deve
	lopment\, an integrated approach to sustainable development was adopted to
	 address the needs of the affected regions and communities. The agencies\,
	 funds and programmes have continued to work closely with the Governments 
	of Belarus\, the Russian Federation and Ukraine to provide development ass
	istance to the Chernobyl-affected communities.\n\n
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