“This is the subject of further negotiations with the Director General of the IAEA and the leadership of the UN Secretariat,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Vyshnevetsky added that the results of the talks would make it clear what alternative options could be considered.
Earlier, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that the IAEA had begun work on sending a second mission to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.