Bratislava – Minister of Surroundings Tomáš Taraba (SNS) led the Slovak delegation in negotiations in Bratislava with the Hungarian delegation led by Minister of Vitality Csaba Lantos on the decision of a 30-year dispute associated to the development of the Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros waterworks system. The communication division of the Ministry of Surroundings of the Slovak Republic knowledgeable TASR about this.
The negotiations had been additionally attended by the Normal Director of the state enterprise Water Administration Development Peter Molda and the Normal Director of the Hungarian vitality firm MVM Gábor Orbán.
“In lower than half a 12 months, seven bilateral negotiations of presidency representatives, delegations, and specialists have already taken place,” famous the Ministry of Surroundings. Either side agreed that it’s essential to align the present state with the authorized state and discover a mutually useful resolution that ensures flood safety and worldwide in addition to leisure and sports activities navigation. It should additionally contribute to enhancing environmental circumstances and can improve the vitality use of the Danube’s hydro potential on the Gabčíkovo Hydro Plant.
“Nearly as good neighbors, we need to finish the dispute with mutual respect, good relations, however in such a method that each states discover a completely acceptable resolution, which can solely create a precondition for even higher cooperation in different areas as nicely. As we speak’s dynamics and the extent of the negotiations solely affirm that each side need to attain an settlement and within the close to future current to the governments the fundamental convergences for the potential preparation of a brand new worldwide settlement,” defined Minister Taraba.
The Worldwide Court docket of Justice in The Hague delivered a judgment on September 25, 1997, within the dispute between Hungary and the Slovak Republic regarding the building and use of the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros waterworks system (SVDGN). The courtroom confirmed the validity of the 1977 settlement, the succession of the Slovak Republic after the Czechoslovak Federative Republic (CSFR), and declared the development of the choice resolution (Čunovo stage) justified. The courtroom declared that each events, within the curiosity of reconciling financial improvement with environmental safety, ought to collectively reexamine the impacts of using the Gabčíkovo energy plant on the atmosphere. (August 27)