Photo: Marija JankovićFrom the meeting in Gornji Milanovac, environmental activists announced: next Saturday road blockades across Serbia and one border crossing. Radicalization follows because the deadline given to the authorities to withdraw the Spatial Plan of the special purpose area for the "Jadar" project has expired
The struggle of activists and environmentally conscious citizens against Rio Tinto and the authorities continued in 2022. On the previous two Saturdays, smaller blockades were held in coordination with the Alliance of Environmental Organizations of Serbia (SEOS), while today over 40 environmental organizations from all over Serbia held, as they say, a "historic" meeting on the radicalization of protests.
One of the leaders of the Ecological Uprising, Đorđe Miketić, tells Vreme that the deadline given to the authorities to withdraw the Spatial Plan of the Special Purpose Area for the "Jadar" project has expired, and that is why they will radicalize the blockades. He explains that on January 15, in addition to the standard blockade of roads throughout Serbia, one border crossing will be blocked, while a week later a large blockade will be organized at one location, which will be known later.
He adds that they will also go in front of the Government building with the request that one of the activists be present at the discussions about Rio Tinto.
Today's meeting was attended, among others, by SEOS, Environmental Uprising, Ne davimo Beograd, and the Open Civic Platform "Akcija".
The interlocutor points out that the primary demands are the cancellation of the Government's decree on the "Jadar" project, as well as the inspection of all signed documents with the Rio Tinto company in order to know, as he says, "how much the guild has to pay" in case of termination of the contract.
Namely, the representatives of the government initially said that no contract was concluded with Rio Tinto, but recently the refusal to "thank" the British-Australian company for the cooperation, they argue that Serbia will have to pay a lot of money, because it has committed itself to the lithium mine. . So far, not a single document has been seen to support these claims.
Miketić adds that at the meeting they agreed that in addition to expelling Rio Tinto, it is necessary to change the ecological situation in Serbia as a whole, as well as other spheres of society.
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