Graham Watson MEP (South West of England and Gibraltar), Chair of the European Parliament's India delegation, has tabled a Written Declaration on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal Disaster urging the Indian government and the company responsible for it to ensure the immediate decontamination of the site.

Watson said:

"The failure to decontaminate the Bhopal site and the inadequate 1989 compensation package mean that the terrible impact of the disaster continues to echo down the generations.

"Dow Chemicals should take responsibility for the clean up of the site, the Indian and Madhya Pradesh governments should ensure that they do, and the European Commission should offer its full support where that is needed.

"This incident must not be forgotten. On the twenty fifth anniversary of Bhopal, I am pleased that MEPs are coming together to make sure that it is not."

ENDS.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Thursday 3 December 2009 marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the Bhopal disaste