UN has not explained the disruption of the June visit of the IAEA delegation to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant – Ulyanov
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The UN did not give clear explanations about what was the reason for the decision to block the June visit of the delegation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, said.
In an interview with TASS, Ulyanov said that the visit of the IAEA delegation to the ZNPP was blocked at the last moment. At the same time, the agency itself was interested in visiting the nuclear power plant, but did not receive permission from the Security Department of the UN Secretariat to travel to the nuclear power plant area, although more was not required from the UN.
“We worked very closely with the agency in May-June and prepared the visit. At the last moment, the UN Secretariat blocked it without a clear explanation of the reasons,” the diplomat said.
In March, the Russian Armed Forces established control over the ZNPP. On Thursday, the head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, said that Ukrainian nationalists continue shelling the ZNPP, at least 3 Ukrainian rockets fell in the area of the storage of radioactive isotopes. At the same time, according to Balitsky, despite the fall of missiles, the radioactive background in the ZNPP area does not exceed the normative indicators, and no radioactive contamination is noted. Balitsky also accused Ukraine of trying to achieve the effect of a “dirty bomb”, that is, radioactive emissions, by strikes at the ZNPP. According to him, Ukrainian neo-Nazis are deliberately trying to get into the storage facility for nuclear waste at the ZNPP, and their successful provocation of a radioactive release will make the surrounding area uninhabitable.
Earlier, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, said that the IAEA delegation should visit the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) as soon as possible, and is already discussing the details of the visit with all interested parties, and the UN is ready to support this initiative “by any possible means.” Dujarric said that the importance of visits to ZNPP by IAEA experts is increasing every day.
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