You Said It
- "Nobody knows what it is."
-Linas Vainas, Lithuanian Green Movement chairman, when asked about the state of public participation in Lithuania.
- "The government tried, but failed, thankfully, to organize a governmental nongovernmental organization."
-Olga Ponizova, executive director of the Russian NGO ECO-Accord, on the Russian government's attempt to form its own NGO.
- "No corporation can afford to overlook the power of public opinion."
-Myron Kandel, CNN Business News, commenting on Shell's decision not to sink an aging oil platform in the Atlantic because of vehement public outrage.
- "People aren't scared, just disillusioned."
-Natalia Dimitrova, a REC junior fellow and Bulgarian NGO member, after police attacked a group of demonstrators protesting a controversial water diversion project in southwest Bulgaria.
- "There's not much to be excited about the EPE process. The governments haven't done anything for so long and now that they have, it still isn't interesting."
-John Hontelez, Friends of the Earth International, on why NGOs are so critical of the Environment Programme for Europe slated for adoption at the Sofia Ministerial Conference in October.
THE BULLETIN * SUMMER 1995