Handing over of the site to UN peacekeepers is an eminently sensible solution.
If things continue to be as they are, a Fukushima-like disaster may ensue any moment. Given the extremely grave implications, the UNSG should immediately get in touch with both Ukraine and Russia to discuss and work out the modalities for such handover. <<UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the recent shelling of the facility. Any attack on a nuclear plant "is a suicidal thing," Guterres told a news conference in Japan. His comments followed a visit to Hiroshima over the weekend, where Guterres gave a speech to mark the 77th anniversary of the world's first nuclear bombing. Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company Enerhoatom, said peacekeepers should be deployed at the Zaporizhzhya site. "The decision that we demand from the world community and all our partners...is to withdraw the invaders from the territory of the station and create a demilitarized zone on the territory of the station," Kotin said on Ukrainian television. "The presence of peacekeepers in this zone and the transfer of control of it to them, and then also control of the station to the Ukrainian side, would resolve this problem." The Russia Foreign Ministry said later in a statement that it wanted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to visit the plant, but said Kyiv was blocking a potential visit. Ukraine said renewed Russian shelling on August 6 had damaged three radiation sensors and hurt a worker at the Zaporizhzhya facility, Europe's largest nuclear power plant. It was the second strike to hit the plant in consecutive days. Russia has claimed that Ukraine is responsible for the strikes.>> (Excerpted from: 'UN Chief Calls For International Access To Ukrainian Nuclear Plant After New Attack' at < https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-zelenskiy-russia-shelling/31977218.html >.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CACEsOZjy1xdKn6ev9gYS5Yjr_KKo1%3DJoKGrLaJiQyppP0kgCNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
