Ukraine Proposes to Amend the Iaea Statute Due to the Violation of Nuclear Safety
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As Sybiha emphasized, the current IAEA Statute does not provide an adequate response to situations in which a Member State knowingly and intentionally undermines the conditions for the safe and responsible use of nuclear energy, while simultaneously continuing to exercise full decision-making rights within the Agency's structures. According to the Ukrainian minister, this is a serious gap in the system of international nuclear safety oversight.
There is no response in the statute to cases where someone undermines the safe and reliable use of nuclear energy, Andrei Sibiga said.
Ukraine has taken the initiative to update the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by proposing a mechanism to limit the participation of States in decision-making in cases of gross and deliberate violations of the principles of nuclear security, as reported by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrei Sibiga, stressing that the Agency ' s current Statute does not contain any tools to respond to situations where the coun…
Ukraine proposes amendments to the IAEA Statute to deprive Russia of leadership rightsUkraine is initiating amendments to the IAEA Statute to deprive the state that violates nuclear safety of leadership rights. Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga instructed to submit proposals to the IAEA Secretariat.
Ukraine has proposed stripping countries that undermine the safe use of nuclear energy of their right to participate in IAEA decision-making. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha on the social media platform X. Read also: "Russia is trying to harm Ukrainian nuclear power plants; we have intelligence on their activities," Zelenskyy said. The Foreign Minister noted that the IAEA Statute does not provide…
He wrote about this on his page in the social network H.According to him, now the IAEA does not have clear rules that would limit the rights of a state that deliberately creates risks for the safe use of nuclear energy.” The Charter does not provide for response measures in cases where the state deliberately undermines the conditions for the safe and reliable use of nuclear energy, but at the same time continues to exercise all administrative ri…
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