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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answers to media questions on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum
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❓ How do you assess the #IAEA report on the situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant presented by Rafael Grossi? What is constructive about it and what raises concerns?
💬 Both Russian envoys – Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya (when the issue was discussed in the UN Security Council) and Permanent Representative to the international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov – have already commented on this report. All our approaches have been outlined.
❓Will the report be published?
💬 We need to get additional clarification, because there are a number of questions about the report. I will not list them now. I requested these explanations from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.
#ZNPP
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❓ How do you assess the #IAEA report on the situation at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant presented by Rafael Grossi? What is constructive about it and what raises concerns?
💬 Both Russian envoys – Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya (when the issue was discussed in the UN Security Council) and Permanent Representative to the international organisations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov – have already commented on this report. All our approaches have been outlined.
❓Will the report be published?
💬 We need to get additional clarification, because there are a number of questions about the report. I will not list them now. I requested these explanations from IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi.
#ZNPP
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🤝 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi
On September 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on the sidelines of the high-level week at the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly.
During the meeting, they exchanged views on the security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
Sergey Lavrov reiterated Russia’s willingness to continue close cooperation with the #IAEA with a view to forcing the Kiev regime to immediately stop the shelling of the said plant and adjacent territory, including the city of Energodar, where the plant’s employees and their families live.
On September 21, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi on the sidelines of the high-level week at the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly.
During the meeting, they exchanged views on the security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the situation around the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
Sergey Lavrov reiterated Russia’s willingness to continue close cooperation with the #IAEA with a view to forcing the Kiev regime to immediately stop the shelling of the said plant and adjacent territory, including the city of Energodar, where the plant’s employees and their families live.
Key points:
📌 We call on the curators of the Kiev regime to exercise responsibility and exert influence on their 'wards' in order to avoid a large-scale catastrophe.
📌 Western ruling elites should understand that the failures on the battlefield make Kiev eager to create a pretext for the deployment of the NATO contingent to Ukraine, thereby to inflate a regional conflict into World War III.
❗️ American and European citizens are hardly ready to march in orderly rows to the hell, into which the Zelensky government is dragging the entire planet.
📌 News reporters continue to pretend not to notice the obvious: from the very beginning of the special military operation, all the accusations of the Zelensky regime against us turned out to be sabotage operations of Kiev itself. Suffice it to say what happened to the Kakhovka dam, Bucha and Kramatorsk.
‼️ This time stakes have grown substantially: Europe's nuclear security is at risk.
📌 Russian citizens work at the facility. #IAEA experts, who cannot but know who is shelling the ZNPP, are present there on a rotational basis, too. The reactors are protected.
📌 However, besides power units there are more vulnerable infrastructure facilities: cooling systems, storage sites for fresh fuel and nuclear waste. Any projectile hit is extremely dangerous as radiation contamination of vast territories can follow.
📌 Observers are actually playing along with the criminal intentions of the Ukrainian authorities ahead of the #NATO summit.
📌 The criminal intentions are:
▪️to use a terrorist attack in order to slander Russia as a 'nuclear terrorist;
▪️to divert attention from the failed counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the West has invested enormous resources;
▪️to use the provocation so as to draw the Alliance directly into the conflict.
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Russia warns Ukraine plans to draw U.S. into "World War III" after setbacks
"American and European citizens are hardly ready to march in orderly rows to...hell," Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov tells Newsweek.
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⚛️ On March 6, 2024, President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) Rafael Grossi.
💬 President Putin: Russia continues to cooperate with the IAEA in a lot of very important areas and remains an undisputed world leader in this area. We not only use but actively promote nuclear energy and consider it an environmentally friendly form of energy; we do everything to improve the safety of nuclear facilities.
• We are building new power plants according to today’s principles: the Kursk-2 NPP uses fast neutrons. We are making small stations and developing a nuclear fleet. A small floating nuclear power plant was installed in the north.
• All this is in great demand not only in Russia, but also in the economies and energy sectors of the whole world. And we are ready to share what we have developed with all our interested partners.
• We are implementing numerous projects in many countries with your assistance and support.
• I know that you have particularly sensitive and important issues on the agenda of our meeting today, and we, of course, are ready to discuss them and do everything to ensure security in any place where we are in one way or another involved in nuclear energy.
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💬 President Putin: Russia continues to cooperate with the IAEA in a lot of very important areas and remains an undisputed world leader in this area. We not only use but actively promote nuclear energy and consider it an environmentally friendly form of energy; we do everything to improve the safety of nuclear facilities.
• We are building new power plants according to today’s principles: the Kursk-2 NPP uses fast neutrons. We are making small stations and developing a nuclear fleet. A small floating nuclear power plant was installed in the north.
• All this is in great demand not only in Russia, but also in the economies and energy sectors of the whole world. And we are ready to share what we have developed with all our interested partners.
• We are implementing numerous projects in many countries with your assistance and support.
• I know that you have particularly sensitive and important issues on the agenda of our meeting today, and we, of course, are ready to discuss them and do everything to ensure security in any place where we are in one way or another involved in nuclear energy.
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