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The process was to be administered by one “maître (lawyer)
Sauvage, 19, rue D’Athenes, Paris”, the financial side would be
in the hands of Bechara Parabe (see above).
FMW representative Armin Warneke told a business contact in
Austria that FMW had “bought” important members of the
Comoros’ administration and some Members of Parliament
(Assemblée Nationale).
Reacting to the first Al-Atwan article an FMW representative
wrote a counterstatement and succeeded in changing the editors’
critical attitude so that they published the full text, he said. Al-
Watwan is a government paper. In fact, the 12 May article was
very critical about the project and called it “an impardonable
crime”, but at the same time downplayed the role of Kamel
Zouai.
Other media such as “Radio France D’Outre Mer” (RFO), and
“Europe 2”, both broadcast from Mayotte, the only French island
of the Comoros archipelago, specifically stressed his role and
reminded their audience of past “scandals” he was involved in.
They also expressed concern that censorship would soon put an
end to the public debate on toxic waste imports.
The Paris based Indian Ocean Newsletter, ION, (weekly)
comments in its 20 May, 1995 edition that “this kind of
information in the pro-government weekly is unusual to say the
least” and could only be explained by “the ongoing war of
nerves” between different clans and power groups in the country.
“It’s silent now”, said Patrick Braindot, Europe 2 reporter, in a
phone conversation with Andreas Bernstorff of Greenpeace
Germany on August 28, 1995. 58
Note: FMW offered the same or similar types of incinerator,
always to be pre-financed by toxic waste imports, to the
following countries: North Korea, Kazakhstan, Argentina,
Panama, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Romania, Slovenia, Russia,
Turkey, and Spain.
Obsolete Pesticides: No information available; forgotten country: Comoros is not even
listed among the African countries where no FAO survey has
been conducted yet.
CONGO, People’s Republic of
BASEL LOMÉ IV / COTONOU BAMAKO
Party Ratified / Party to
58 “FMW: A Global Waste Trader - Prepared for the Third Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention” in Geneva, 18-22 September, 1995 (30 pages, English and German).
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