UN General Assembly to consider draft resolution on nuclear safety prepared by Ukraine
Kyiv • UNN
Ukraine has submitted a draft UN resolution on the safety of its nuclear facilities, including Zaporizhzhia NPP, with the support of more than 50 co-sponsoring countries.
Today, on July 11, Ukraine, together with the co-sponsoring countries, is submitting a draft resolution "Safety and security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including Zaporizhzhia NPP" to the UN General Assembly. This was announced by Ukraine's representative to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, on his page in X, UNN reports.
Kysylytsia said that the UN will consider measures to improve safety at Ukraine's nuclear facilities, including the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This issue was one of the three key topics discussed by state leaders and representatives of international organizations at the meeting in Switzerland.
"The draft resolution of the General Assembly recalls that the Summit emphasized that any use of nuclear energy and nuclear facilities should be safe, secure, safeguarded and not harmful to the environment and that Ukrainian nuclear power plants and facilities, in particular ZNPP, should remain under the full sovereign control of Ukraine in accordance with the IAEA principles," Kysylytsia writes.
The representative of Ukraine to the UN thanked the countries that supported the project before the vote and became its cosponsors, in particular:
Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Micronesia (Federated States of), Myanmar, Netherlands, Monaco, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vanuatu.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at approximately 22:30 Kyiv time.
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