Yuri Afanasiev congratulates India for agreeing to host World Environment Day 2018

I would like to congratulate the Government of India And India as a country in offering to host the World Environment Day this year on the 5th of June 2018. The occasion of the World Environment Summit is an important one because the topic this year is plastics, recycling and solid waster management. The world is choking on plastics and the and the recent deaths of animals both in India and Whales and dolphins around the world demonstrate that the world has saturated oceans and our land with plastic waste. How India and other countries around the world will deal with this problem is the topic of World Environment Day this year. So, again thanks go to the Indian Government. We strongly encourage the Indian Industry to participate in this. We strongly recommend that other countries come to India for this occasion and bring innovation, technology and models on how to deal effectively with solid and especially plastic waste. And we hope that it will not just be an event and a conference where people exchange opinions. But will also be an occasion where action plans, measures and programmes are put in place to deal with this terrible problem that is suffocating the world. Thank you very much.