NARYAN-MAR, August 20. /TASS/. Young people from the BRICS countries will be invited to an international volunteer camp on the Spitsbergen Archipelago. The camp will become a permanent platform for joint cleaning of Arctic territories, the Clean Arctic public environmental project's leader Andrey Nagibin said at the 5th Youth Environmental Forum-Festival - "The Arctic. The Ice Has Broken".
"Of course, our task is to have as many young people from the BRICS countries as possible, to have them see it, he said. "It would be very interesting to have young people from India, China, and Brazil, who will see our history and Russia's careful attitude towards the Arctic."
The Clean Arctic project has been working on a list of Russian and foreign organizations that would be invited to participate in the creation of an international volunteer camp. The camp would be a permanent site for joint cleaning of Arctic territories. The organizers hope that the participants of such an association will draw up common protocols for collection, dismantling and removal of waste from hard-to-reach locations.
Earlier, in June, the Clean Arctic movement's environmental mission was working on the Spitsbergen Archipelago for the first time ever. The expedition participants, with the support of volunteers from the Arktikugol State Trust Company, cleaned up the Russian villages of Barentsburg and Piramida.
