Addressing a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the top UN official endorsed the recommendations made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi, who inspected the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant last week and presented a report to the Security Council.<\/p>\n
In the first instance, Guterres told the council that all military operations around the plant should cease.<\/p>\n
“As a second step, an agreement on a demilitarized perimeter should be secured,” he said. “Specifically, this would include a commitment by the Russian military to withdraw military personnel and equipment from that perimeter, and a commitment by Ukrainian forces not to enter.”<\/p>\n
“We are playing with fire and something very disastrous could happen. That is why in our report, we are proposing the establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone confined to the periphery and the plant,” Grossi told the council via video link.<\/p>\n
The IAEA, UN’s nuclear watchdog, urged an immediate end to shelling around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, according to the report.<\/p>\n
“This requires agreement by all relevant parties to the establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the plant, it said.<\/p>\n
The IAEA mission, headed by Grossi, worked at the plant from Sept. 1-5, and Grossi told reporters on Friday that two of the agency’s experts would remain permanently at the nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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