The Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said today, Monday, that he is ready to hold talks in Ukraine and Russia this week to establish a security zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which has been controlled by Russian forces since the beginning of the war on Ukraine, which has been going on since February 24. Past.
"We must do everything in our power to avoid a nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine," Grossi said at the opening of the IAEA's annual general conference held at its headquarters in Vienna, adding that the agency was ready to consult with the Russian and Ukrainian sides to secure stability in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye plant, the largest nuclear plant. in Ukraine and Europe.
The Director of the Atomic Energy Agency stated that there is a plan to secure stability in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye plant, adding that he held talks last week in this regard in Ukraine and Russia, and will continue these discussions with the two countries this week.
Accusations
On the first day of the agency's annual conference, Ukraine's delegate to the United Nations agency said that "the world is at serious risk as a result of Russia's practices in the vicinity of the Zaporozhye plant," stressing that Kyiv supports the decision demanding Moscow to stop its activities in the vicinity of the station.
On the other hand, the Director-General of the Russian company "Rosatom" Alexei Likhachev said that the Ukrainian forces are targeting the Zaporozhye plant and its surroundings, "and there are no Russian forces in Zaporozhye," adding that his country is monitoring the level of radiation at the nuclear plant.
The situation at the Zaporozhye plant will be among the issues that representatives of the agency's 175 member states will discuss over four days, including the agency's nuclear safety and security activities in the Middle East and North Korea, as well as the situation in Ukraine.
Iranian nuclear
In a related context, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said today, Monday, that Tehran "expects the International Atomic Energy Agency to abide by its credibility, and to stop working based on allegations," explaining that Iran accepts a verification regime for its facilities for a specific period.
In his country's speech at the opening of the annual conference of the Atomic Energy Agency, Eslami stressed that there are no unauthorized nuclear activities in Iran.
The Iranian official had previously stated that he would meet in Vienna this week with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The agency had said on the seventh of September that it "cannot guarantee that the Iranian nuclear program is peaceful," and added - in a report - that no progress had been made in the file of traces of enriched uranium that had previously been found in 3 undeclared sites in Iran. Iran.
The issue of unauthorized sites is one of the issues that complicates the course of talks between Iran and major powers aimed at reviving the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, as Iran demands that the International Atomic Energy Agency close the file of unauthorized sites to allow an understanding to be achieved in talks to revive the agreement, while the Director of Agency Tehran to provide answers in this regard.