DIKO's support for the Forestry Department was expressed by party President Nicolas Papadopoulos, after a meeting with the Director of the Forestry Department, Haralambos Alexandrou. The meeting took place on Monday afternoon at the party's offices.
"Forests are one of the most valuable assets we have in our country and they offer us clean air, biodiversity, quality of life. For this very reason, we must find ways to develop our forests so that they continue to provide the joy they currently offer to our population," Papadopoulos said.
In addition, he expressed DIKO's desire to help the Forestry Department to develop the infrastructure at its disposal. In fact, he spoke of "better utilization of existing staff, infrastructure such as the Forestry College, and much more that can be done so that these valuable services can be developed and improved."
The DIKO President noted that the Forestry Department has the main role in terms of preventing the high risk of fires in forest areas especially during the summer season. "We want to prevent bad developments, we want the Forestry Department to have at its disposal all the firefighters, forest firefighters, all the staff needed to be able to prevent the worst so that we do not relive this summer what we experienced last summer," he said.
DIKO will support the efforts of the Department to improve and the demands for proper staffing of the Forestry Department so that our forests have the protection they need, Papadopoulos concluded.
Source: KYPE
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