The Korean government is not violating any domestic or international laws in its push to build a naval base on Jeju, an authoritative international environmental group said Monday.
“We trust that the Korean government has complied with all relevant domestic laws in planning and developing this port, as well as international conventions that it has signed,” the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a statement posted on its website.
The IUCN, the world’s oldest and largest environmental organization, is to hold a congress on the Korean resort island from Sept. 6-15. The statement came after non-governmental groups demanded Seoul suspend the work, citing environmental reasons.
(milaya@heraldcorp.com)
“We trust that the Korean government has complied with all relevant domestic laws in planning and developing this port, as well as international conventions that it has signed,” the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a statement posted on its website.
The IUCN, the world’s oldest and largest environmental organization, is to hold a congress on the Korean resort island from Sept. 6-15. The statement came after non-governmental groups demanded Seoul suspend the work, citing environmental reasons.
(milaya@heraldcorp.com)
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