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This is interesting. This is a night view from space on the world. 

 This is from the National Geographic map. Look for the angle, the 

 right angle here is the brightest place all over the world. It is not 

 New York, it is not Los Angeles, but it is Surgood. It is the Surgood 

 region in Northwestern Siberia, the gas and oil deposition. Tens of 

 thousands of gas storage creates such an enormous light which is 

 located from hundreds and hundreds of kilometers from space. It 

 has created not only light but it has created enormous pollution. 



I fully agree with my friend Al Gore, who, in his book which was 

 published 4 years ago, mentioned that the fastest way to stop cli- 

 mate change is to stop leaking and to stop gas storage in North Si- 

 beria. And the last one? 



So what do we have to do now? This is a joke, of course, but this 

 joke has a sense. All our problems are going to the Soviet past, 

 going to the Soviet past. Yes, the cold war is over but we have an 

 enormous problem, how we can conduct, how we can deal with the 

 problem which was created during the cold war. You created this 

 problem. We created this problem. Now we have joined our 

 strengths to overcome this problem. 



Thank you very much. The lights, please? 



My first proposition was about the Arctic agreement. My next 

 proposition is we need to do something with the London Conven- 

 tion. Until now, the London Convention, which is against any 

 dumping, does not cover any pollution, any radioactive pollution 

 from land. We know that fuel in Great Britain, in the reprocessing 

 plant in France, continues to dump, practically to dump an enor- 

 mous amount of radioactive contamination into the North Atlantic. 



The next proposal, after the white book in Russia about dump- 

 ing, we dream that other countries who conduct such activity also 

 published its own book but we have no white book about dumping 

 in the United States. We have no white book about dumping in 

 Great Britain. We have no white book about dumping in Japan. We 

 know the enormous scale of dumping in Japan, but nobody cal- 

 culated it officially. We need such a calculation. 



Also, I never mentioned it before but I mention it here, we have 

 an enormous problem with Arctic pollution from space activity. 

 Twenty-two million hectares in the Russian territory are highly 

 polluted from space remnants, but not only territory, also Arctic 

 pollution. The Arctic Ocean is highly polluted in several places in 

 the Arctic Ocean. What is your English place where you are land- 

 ing your space rockets? 



Mr. Weldon. Cape Kennedy. 



Dr. Yablokov. It is a more active place for landing all over the 

 globe. It has a visible negative effect for the Arctic. 



I think we have to support the Norway, American, and Russian 

 agreement to overcome some enormous problem. We need to de- 

 velop this agreement and maybe to raise the level of this agree- 

 ment some. 



This is my main proposal and my last note. It is just the right 

 place and the right time to raise the question before the Gr-7. In 

 several months, the G-7 has a meeting in Moscow specially de- 

 voted to the radioactive problem. It will be exactly in 10 years after 

 the Chernobyl catastrophe. Just now, you have to elaborate some 



