Members of the Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services addressed the parliaments of foreign countries, the European Parliament and international parliamentary assemblies on violations of nuclear safety by Russia
Informatiion Department
12 March 2022, 10:58
On March 10, a meeting of the Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services was held by video conference.
At the meeting, the Committee unanimously decided to appeal to the parliaments of all foreign countries, the European Parliament and international parliamentary assemblies on the global nuclear threat due to Russia's seizure of Chernobyl and ZNPP.
The application includes the following requirements:
- support for the implementation of the No Fly Zone regime over the territory of Ukraine taking into consideration the location of NPPs on the territory of Ukraine;
- support for an immediate ceasefire and a ban on the occupying forces of the Russian Federation approaching closer than 30 km to nuclear power facilities in Ukraine;
- strengthening monitoring and control, under the auspices of the IAEA and with the involvement of the OSCE, on the situation at Ukraine's nuclear facilities;
- conducting special missions to ensure nuclear security in Ukraine in the face of Russia's armed aggression;
- recognition that Russia's actions are acts of nuclear terrorism;
- joining the requirement to ban Russia's access to IAEA intellectual and technological resources and the requirement to sever relations with Russian citizens in the UN structures related to nuclear energy.
The Committee insists on urgent action to ensure nuclear, radiation safety and control of nuclear materials on the territory of Ukraine in connection with Russia's military aggression against Ukraine.
Acts of nuclear terrorism at the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhya NPP sites can cause lethal radiation pollution not only in the neighbouring regions of Ukraine, but also in neighbouring countries.