Nuclear terrorism and legal protection of environment

Full text: For the last years the terrorism has significantly changed. If 20-30 years ago terrorists would kidnap famous politicians or hijack planes, but at this stage they switched to massive destruction of innocent people. Now the problem of struggle against nuclear terrorism becomes very actual problem. The nuclear terrorism is meant as an opportunity of accomplishment of act of terrorism with use of the nuclear weapon, or accomplishment of explosions on atomic power stations and other objects of an atomic energy. Threats to nuclear objects become more and more often and appreciable. In the world there were some similar cases of threat to nuclear objects from the part of terrorists, and also cases of use by terrorists of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological substances. These cases testify to real threat of use by terrorists of the weapon of mass destruction. It is natural, that accomplishment of acts of terrorism on these objects can lead to ecological catastrophe and can put an irreparable loss to an environment and process of social development. Up to the middle of sixtieth years of twentieth century protection of an environment was not put forward as an independent political problem, and its scientific substantiation has not been developed enough as a diversified, complex, global problem. Only dynamical development in seventieth - eightieth years of scientific bases of global problems has allowed to allocate the rules of law concerning to protection of an environment, into special group. International legal protection of ecology was precisely allocated now in system of the general international law as independent, specific sphere of regulation. The principle of inadmissibility of radioactive pollution of environment covers both military, and peace area of use of nuclear power. Formation and the statement of this special principle of International law of the Environment takes place in two ways - contractual and usual, with observance by the states of existing international practice. As is known, Azerbaijan Republic takes a special place at the turn of Europe and Asia. In territory of Azerbaijan geopolitical interests of many countries are crossed. Except for that the Caucasus, one of which important components is Azerbaijan, represents very difficult and specific region. In this territory there are zones of regional conflicts, one of which is the so-called zone of 'the conflict of Nagorny Karabakh'. Nagorny Karabakh, and also other territories of Azerbaijan that have been occupied by Armenia are outside of jurisdiction not only Azerbaijan, but also all world community, and these territories are used as a zone of transportation of narcotics and centers of preparation of terrorists for the extremist organizations. Serious threat for region is the Armenian Atomic Power Station (APS). As it has been marked above, accomplishment of acts of terrorism on nuclear objects can lead to ecological catastrophe and can put an irreparable loss to an environment and process of social development. In a case of accomplishment of act of terrorism on the Armenian APS, there can be a big ecological catastrophe in the region from which the inhabitants of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Georgia, the countries of the Near East and the Armenia will suffer. Considering all aforesaid, Azerbaijan should improve the legislation in the field of the ecological right in view of new displays of terrorism, namely in view of probability of accomplishment of acts of terrorism with use of the weapon of mass destruction, according to experience of the advanced countries. Perfection of the legislation in these areas should conduct on the basis of observance of specificity of region and answer the international conventions. Work in the field of the ecological right and struggle against terrorism, and also perfection of legislations of the Azerbaijan Republic in these areas is one of priority tasks of lawmaking of the country at the present stage