Draft IAEA board resolution calls on Russia to leave Zaporizhzhia plant - Reuters
The IAEA draft resolution, prepared as a result of the mission's trip to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, calls on Russia to cease all actions at Ukraine's nuclear facilities.
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It is known that the project was prepared by Poland and Canada ahead of the meeting of the Board of Governors, the International Atomic Energy Agency's top decision-making body, which will take place next week.
The draft is being circulated among the 35 countries that make up the Governing Council and is a continuation of a resolution adopted at an emergency council meeting in March, which was opposed only by Russia and China.
As in March, diplomats said the aim was to show Russia is isolated diplomatically and to pressure it to end its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, where the IAEA says the occupation and shelling from the war pose the risk of a catastrophic nuclear accident.
The draft text says the board "deplores the Russian Federation's persistent violent actions against nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the ongoing presence of Russian forces and Rosatom personnel at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant."
The draft text prepared on behalf of Ukraine, which is not a member of the Board of Governors, has yet to be formally submitted to next week's quarterly board meeting, diplomats said. It would then be debated and voted on.
Several diplomats said that since the wording is similar to the March resolution's, which "deplores" Russia's occupation of Ukraine, it was likely to pass easily and they expected few changes to its wording.
The latest text calls on Russia to "immediately cease all actions against, and at, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and any other nuclear facility in Ukraine, in order for the competent authorities to regain full control over all nuclear facilities within Ukraine's internationally recognised borders."
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