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| | FYR Macedonia Puts Lead Foot Down on Veles Smelter |
 | | VELES, FYR Macedonia, March 25, 2003 (ENS) - The biggest polluter in Macedonia, the battery factory MXK Zletovo in the city of Veles, was today partially closed by government order. |
 | | Under pressure from the public, which was expressed in a big womens' march on March 8, Veles, the most polluted city in the Balkans, will get some relief from the pollutants emitted by the Zletovo smelter. |
 | | He said there is no evidence that the Zletovo smelter had polluted the town on any particular date, and remarked that mortality in Veles is not very high. |
| www.ens-newswire.com /ens/mar2003/2003-03-25-02.asp (556 words) |
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