Ukrainian Foreign Minister: The IAEA mission to Zaporizhia will be the most difficult in the organization’s history

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission to Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant will be “the most difficult in the history” of the agency because of the fighting there, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said today.

“This mission will be the most difficult in the history of the IAEA because of Russia’s military activity there, but also because of the obvious way Russia is trying to legitimize its presence” there, Kuleba noted during a visit to Stockholm.

The director-general of this UN agency, Raphael Grossi, announced this morning that he is on his way to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, while the area he is in has been hit in recent weeks, raising fears of a nuclear attack. accident.

“We expect clear statements from the mission about the violation of all nuclear safety protocols,” Kuleba also underlined during a press conference he gave with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.

The Ukrainian foreign minister repeated Kiev’s demand that the Russian military leave the area, accusing Moscow of “putting Ukraine and the whole world at risk of a nuclear accident”.

“Russia must leave. And the IAEA and other countries must force them to leave,” Kouleba stressed.

The IAEA mission is expected to arrive at the nuclear plant later this week, according to Grossi.

The Group of Seven (G7) countries, which are “extremely concerned” by the risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhia station, earlier today called for guarantees of “full freedom” of access for its personnel IAEA to him.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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