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Russia sees little chance of reaching an agreement with Ukraine for the protection of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

MADRID, 8 Abr.

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Russia sees little chance of reaching an agreement with Ukraine for the protection of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant

MADRID, 8 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian government considers that there are currently not many possibilities of reaching an indirect agreement with Ukraine to guarantee the safety of the Zaporiya plant through the mediation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear agency, which has lawyer on several occasions for declaring the facility a neutral and inviolable place to avoid a catastrophe.

The Zaporizhia plant is the largest in Europe and has six reactors commissioned between 1984 and 1995. It has been controlled by Russian forces since March last year, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, and has been the scene of constant offensive and coveted piece by both Kiev and Moscow.

The Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited the nuclear power plant at the end of the month and reported that the talks between the Russian and Ukrainian parties had recently focused on establishing a series of "basic principles of protection", leaving aside the IAEA's intention to get both countries to agree to establish this protection "zone" around the facilities.

This is what the permanent representative of Russia to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, has referred to, has conveyed his pessimism about the development of the talks and, in particular, about the exact consideration of the status that the plant would have.

Ulyanov has confirmed in this sense that the IAEA will eliminate the term "zone" to describe the surroundings of the plant, understanding that this word has connotations of territorial domain that could derail indirect negotiations with Kiev in this regard.

"There are possibilities of reaching an agreement," Ulyanov said for his part in statements to the Russia-24 channel collected by the TASS agency, "but they are not too great", before reproaching Kiev for its "negative stance" on these aspects. to deal with the consequent increase in the difficulty of the negotiations.