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01.10.2024
Lukashenko meets with IAEA chief, reaffirms Belarus’ commitment to security, peace
MINSK (
BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko met with Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi in Minsk on 1 October, BelTA has learned.
"The Belarusian people and I are very impressed by your active work, the work of the organization recently. We often see you. We are familiar with your statements and findings. We very positively assess your work related to the security and safety of nuclear power plants, especially those that have found themselves in the war zone – Zaporozhye NPP and Kursk NPP," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The president recalled that Belarus has been the IAEA member since the organization was established. According to him, the country always pays special attention to cooperation with the IAEA.
“This is primarily due to the fact that we have become a nuclear power: we have built a nuclear power plant,” the head of state explained. “By the way, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this is the most modern and, I hope, safest nuclear power plant in the world. We built it, figuratively speaking, from scratch. We had no specialists, no experience, and no knowledge of operating a nuclear power plant. But we learned, we trained specialists in time”.
“We received great assistance from the Russian Federation and the IAEA,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “Our plant is safe, and the experience that we have accumulated in Belarus will be useful for the organization anywhere in the world,” the president stressed.
He assumed that more speculations concerning the BelNPP will be generated in the future. "You can see it on the example of Lithuania: they are overly concerned about our NPP and anything that is happening in Belarus in general. But this is politics, let's not talk about it. You should know that we are committed to security and peace. We will do our utmost in order to ensure regional nuclear safety," the Belarusian leader said.
"The Belarusian people and I are very impressed by your active work, the work of the organization recently. We often see you. We are familiar with your statements and findings. We very positively assess your work related to the security and safety of nuclear power plants, especially those that have found themselves in the war zone – Zaporozhye NPP and Kursk NPP," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The president recalled that Belarus has been the IAEA member since the organization was established. According to him, the country always pays special attention to cooperation with the IAEA.
“This is primarily due to the fact that we have become a nuclear power: we have built a nuclear power plant,” the head of state explained. “By the way, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this is the most modern and, I hope, safest nuclear power plant in the world. We built it, figuratively speaking, from scratch. We had no specialists, no experience, and no knowledge of operating a nuclear power plant. But we learned, we trained specialists in time”.
“We received great assistance from the Russian Federation and the IAEA,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “Our plant is safe, and the experience that we have accumulated in Belarus will be useful for the organization anywhere in the world,” the president stressed.
He assumed that more speculations concerning the BelNPP will be generated in the future. "You can see it on the example of Lithuania: they are overly concerned about our NPP and anything that is happening in Belarus in general. But this is politics, let's not talk about it. You should know that we are committed to security and peace. We will do our utmost in order to ensure regional nuclear safety," the Belarusian leader said.