Moldovan parliament's leadership commemorates victims of Chernobyl accident

Chisinau, 26 April /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Zinaida Greceanii, other Moldovan MPs today participated in events dedicated to the victims of the accident from the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.  

In her speech, the speaker said that the day of 26 April was an occasion to pay homage to the heroism of the participants in the Chernobyl relief works and the role they had for the entire mankind.

”They left home the families at the price of their own health; they ceased the spread of the radiation and saved millions of human lives, hundreds of hectares of woods, the Continent’s flora and fauna,’’ Zinaida Greceanii said.  

According to her, both the Chernobyl accident and the present global pandemic crisis shows that it is impossible for one to fight by him/herself with a huge threat and that the efforts at the world level should be consolidated.   

Zinaida Greceanii reminded that the public association, Chernobyl Union of Moldova, presently had 1,870 living members, out of all 3,500 men and women mobilized in 1986 to fight against the consequences of the accident. Almost each of them has the first or second degree of disability.    

The parliament of the tenth legislative period made more amendments to the legal framework, in order to strengthen the social protection of the participants in the Chernobyl accident relief works and their families.

Thus, in late 2020, the parliament increased the allocations for the disabled people in the wake of the Chernobyl accident. Last week, a draft law was approved, which sees the increase in the concerned allocation to up to 80 per cent of the quantum of the minimal age limit pension.   

”We further commit to make efforts, in order to provide to a better social protection and more decent living standards to the participants in the Chernobyl accident relief works,’’ the parliament speaker added.    

On 26 April 1986, the reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded. A big fire was at the Chernobyl station during ten days and with a huge volume of radioactive materials released into the atmosphere.    

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