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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, allow me from this august forum to draw your attention to a problem in my country for which, unfortunately, there is still no effective solution. The current Bulgarian Government is about to condemn to an ecological disaster a whole region in our country, which is not very big to start with, by granting a permit for gold extraction from mines in the Krumovgrad region to the Canadian company Dundee Precious Metals. Apart from the permit being granted at ridiculously low prices, there is important documentation missing from it, such as the environmental impact assessment. However, this is not all. The region is part of a protected area and comes under Natura 2000. However, this too is missing from the documentation.
I wonder, ladies and gentlemen, what makes people breach clear-cut nature conservation regulations and condemn a whole region to destruction. Is it the money Bulgaria will get from the permit or the money which the government will collect for it? I urge attention to be focused on this patently corrupt deal and that the guilty parties will be held to account for this. I will also contact the European Commission as I hope that, if Bulgaria is unable to, then Europe will be able to protect this region where nature and architecture have coexisted for centuries. It is this relationship which will be destroyed right from the first explosion in the Krumovgrad mines."@en1
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