Press Release: Lebanon/Environment: International co-ordination efforts to contain oil spill in Lebanon are under way

After the cessation of hostilities international organisations are beginning to co-ordinate their assistance to Lebanon to fight against the oil-spill. International organisations involved in the response to marine pollution emergencies are meeting on 17 August 2006 in Athens in order to agree on an action plan aiming at co-ordinating follow up actions to those carried out by the European Commission in the framework of the monitoring and information Centre (MIC) on civil protection in Lebanon.