30 September 2007
Belarus to establish national polar research center
The Council of Ministers of Belarus has issued a directive that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection should establish a national polar research center.
According to the directive, in the period until 2011, the center will be financed out of the national budget funds earmarked for scientific research and innovative activities, and with the national environmental protection fund’s money provided for financing the government’s 2007-2015 program envisaging the monitoring of the Earth’s polar regions and the organization of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
The center is to have five staff workers. The environment ministry has been tasked with adopting the center’s charter.
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