WWW Irkutsk Newsletter
Wed Feb  7 1996


RUSSIA, U.S. TO JOINTLY CLEAN-UP LAKE BAIKAL. An agreement to work
jointly to protect the ecology of Lake Baikal has been reached at the
Russian-U.S. Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Technical
Cooperation, headed by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and
U.S. Vice President Albert Gore, Russian media reported on 6 February.
The Commission agreed to overhaul the Baikalsk pulp and paper factory,
which according to the Russian branch of Greenpeace is the only firm
that dumps its waste directly into the lake. -- Anna Paretskaya
OMNI