IAEA appeals for maximum restraint to avoid any action that may put the country's nuclear facilities at risk
Date
2/24/2022 9:13:31 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 25
Trend:
The International Atomic energy Agency (IAEA) is following the
situation in Ukraine with grave concern and is appealing for
maximum restraint to avoid any action that may put the country's
nuclear facilities at risk, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi
said, Trend reports citing Agency site.
In line with its mandate, the IAEA is closely monitoring
developments in Ukraine with a special focus on the safety and
security of its nuclear power plants and other nuclear-related
facilities, he said.
The Ukraine regulatory body, the counterpart, has earlier
informed the IAEA that it is maintaining communications with
Ukraine's operational nuclear power plants, which it said are
operating safely and securely.
Regarding the situation at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant,
Ukraine has informed the IAEA that”unidentified armed forces” have
taken control of all facilities of the State Specialized Enterprise
Chornobyl NPP, located within the Exclusion Zone. The counterpart
added that there had been no casualties nor destruction at the
industrial site. Director General Grossi said it is of vital
importance that the safe and secure operations of the nuclear
facilities in that zone should not be affected or disrupted in any
way.
The Director General stressed that the IAEA General Conference –
the annual gathering of all the organization's Member States –
adopted a decision in 2009 saying“any armed attack on and threat
against nuclear facilities devoted to peaceful purposes constitutes
a violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter,
international law and the Statute of the Agency”.
The IAEA remains in permanent contact with its Ukrainian
counterpart.
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