Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Sofia: Five-Year Ban on GMOs to Be Proposed
| 08 February 2010 |
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The measure was a compromise, Karadjova said, between the strong public opposition to GMOs and the European Union regulations, which preclude an outright ban on laboratory and commercial cultivation.
The initial amendments, which were passed at first reading by parliament, allowed cultivation of genetically-modified tobacco, wines, cotton, rose, wheat and vegetables. The bill did not allow cultivation in areas protected under the EU's Natura 2000 programme, but lowered the minimum distance from protected areas at which such crops could be cultivated.
About 300 people protested in the centre of Sofia against the proposed amendments to the Genetically Modified Foods Act (GMFA) on January 31 2010.
Protests were held in front of the National Library, under the motto "Clean food, a healthy earth! Bulgaria GM foods free." Later, protesters marched to the buildings of Bulgarian National Television and the Bulgarian Parliament.
The protesters demanded any decision on loosening GM foods restrictions be postponed until a wider public debate on the topic had been held.
