Official Press Release of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India *maintains studied silence *about India's role with regard to white chrysotile asbestos at 9th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to *UN's **Rotterdam Convention** on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade*. Notably, the UN Meeting was concluded on 10th May, 2009 but the Press Release was issued on 16th May, 2019. Government's silence on white chrysotile asbestos is deafening. http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2019/06/indian-govt-maintains-studied-silence.html
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=190019 Indian government fails to reconcile its ban on mining of all kinds of asbestos and trade in asbestos waste by opposing listing of carcinogenic white chrysotile asbestos mineral fiber in UN list of hazardous chemicals at the Geneva meeting <http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2019/05/indian-government-fails-to-reconcile.html> http://www.asbestosfreeindia.org/2019/05/indian-government-fails-to-reconcile.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CAPpKBbrXNm9AvT%2B2tGhXcbC8BocThYfqZw1KRjXrN5H%2BEhEz8g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
