By Don Silas The Russian Foreign Ministry has levelled harsh accusations against the United Nations (UN) regarding the escalating se...
By Don Silas
The Russian Foreign Ministry has levelled harsh accusations
against the United Nations (UN) regarding the escalating security crisis at
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and warned that the world was “on
the precipice.”
“The UN has unfortunately played a negative role in the case
at hand,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Russian state
radio station, Sputnik.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has
been occupied by Russian troops since March, with Kiev and Moscow accusing each
other of shelling the site as fears of disaster grow.
Zakharova accused authorities at the United Nations of
preventing an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“In the UN Secretariat, which deals with problems of nuclear
energy, including the consequences of technical disasters and the problem in
its broadest sense, they should understand that the world is walking on the
precipice,” Zakharova said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry had already complained in a
statement on Tuesday that a planned trip by IAEA representatives to the plant
fell through at the last minute because of security concerns raised by the UN
Secretariat.
Russia has requested a special meeting of the UN Security
Council on Thursday.
The council is to be briefed by IAEA chief Rafael Grossi on
the state of the nuclear plant.
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