UN Security Council meeting on Zaporizhia power plant
The United Nations (UN) Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
A source within the Chinese presidency of the Security Council, led in August by Beijing, told Agence France-Presse that the meeting would take place on August 11 at 3 p.m. (9 p.m. Paris time). A second diplomatic source at the United Nations headquarters in New York added that the fifteen member countries of the Council would meet on Thursday afternoon, at the request of Russia, which has a right of veto there, like the other four members. permanent (United States, China, France, United Kingdom).
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement that its Director General, Rafael Grossi, would inform the Security Council “the state of nuclear safety and security” at the plant, as well as its “efforts to agree on an IAEA expert mission to the site as soon as possible”. Mr. Grossi described the situation at the complex as“extremely serious”.
The IAEA said its report would detail how the bombings at the site last week “have violated virtually all of the seven indispensable pillars of nuclear safety and security” which Mr. Grossi had described at the beginning of the conflict.
Bombings killed at least fourteen people overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in central Ukraine, near the nuclear power plant. The G7 group on Wednesday accused Moscow of ” put in danger “ region around Zaporizhia and demanded the return of the plant to Ukraine. kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of having bombed the complex.
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