Photo: Miloš Milivojević/TanjugOn Thursday, the Government of Serbia will vote on changes to the Law on Expropriation. The basic court in Valjevo issued a temporary ban on the work of the company Euro Lithium Balkan following the lawsuit of the "March from Kolubare" movement.
Massiveness Saturday protests and specific requests of the organizers gave the first results.
Minister of Finance Sinish Mali announced on Sunday in the morning program of TV Prva that the Government of Serbia will vote on the Amendments to the Law on Expropriation on Thursday.
The withdrawal of that law was one of the two main demands of the environmental protests held last Saturday and the one before last.
Mali explained that he would draw up a proposal so that the Law would be in the Government by Thursday. The deadline for signing the Law on Expropriation expires on December 10 at midnight. The proposal on changes to this law should be in the National Assembly by the end of the year, the President of Serbia said earlier Aleksandar Vučić
Minister Mali emphasized that, "as President Vučić said, the Law has nothing to do with Rio Tinto", and that any decision related to Rio Tinto "is more than a year away from us".
Also, the minister explained that the amendments to the Law refer to deadlines for evictions and appeals, which "according to President Vučić, are too short," says Mali.
He also promised that no decision will be made without the consent of the citizens directly affected by Rio Tinto because it is "according to what the president said."
Some political analysts believe that President Vučić will try to present these amendments to the Law as the result of the conversation he had with the residents of the Jadra Valley on Saturday in Gornji Nedeljice, and not as a concession under the pressure of environmental protests.
Simultaneously with the concession of Vučić and the Government, the Basic Court in Valjevo issued a temporary decision banning the operation of the company Euro Lithium Balkan, based on the lawsuit of the "March from Kolubare" movement.
The people's movement "March from Kolubara" initiated proceedings against Euro Lithium Balkan before the Ministry of Mining and Energy because the Canadian company pollutes the water with its wells.
Euro Lithium Balkan conducts lithium and boron research in the valley Kolubara within the project "Valjevo - Mionica". In the people's movement "March from Kolubare" they claim that Euro Lithium has built about 35 wells in this area.
Two wells are disputed - in the villages of Šušeoka and Lukavac. The analysis showed that the water contains 1000 times more borates than it should, and that it also contains arsenic, strontium and several related metals.
The Ministry of Mining stated that it did not issue any permit for geological research to the company Euro Lithium Balkan from Valjevo, and the minister Zorana Mihajlovic stated that the Ministry "rescinded three of the total five approvals that were issued to this company from 2016 to 2019."
Official data shows that lithium and boron research in these areas has been going on for 18 years, that various companies have been drilling and rotating, and even in the Loznica area, current Rio Tinto, without the citizens living here being aware of the possible consequences.
The temporary decision made by the Basic Court in Valjevo on the ban on the operation of the Euro Lithium Balkan company is valid until the end of the proceedings initiated by the "March from the Drina" movement.
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