President says environmental laws ignored due to selfish commercial interests
Despite having sufficient laws and regulations related to environment preservation in development process, people act in contrary to them to fulfill their petty commercial interests and selfish private needs, said President Maithripala Sirisena.
He went on to say that when the attention of the entire world is on environmental preservation, everybody should act to protect the environment considering it not as a responsibility but as a human duty.
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