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MINSK, 3 October (BelTA) – Belarus and Ukraine offer to work out a cross-border strategy to counter forest pests and forest tree diseases, reads a joint statement of the Belarusian Forestry Ministry and the Ukrainian State Forest Resources Agency, BelTA learned from the press service of the Forestry Ministry.

The statement draws attention to the fact that the climate change process has affected the state of forest resources. Belarus and Ukraine point to the need to devise a strategy to counter forest pests and forest tree diseases in the context of cross-border interaction and to take measures to prevent and counter outbreaks of pests and forest tree diseases. The sides also initiate the consideration of the deterioration of the sanitary state of forests caused by climate change at the next session of the Committee on Forestry of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The document was signed by Belarusian Deputy Forestry Minister Leonid Demyanik and Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian State Forest Resources Agency Vladimir Bondar.