U.N. can facilitate IAEA power plant visit, but Russia puts conditions

16/8/2022 12:08

        The United Nations has the logistics and security capacity to support a visit by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant if both Russia and Ukraine agree, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.
        
        "The U.N. Secretariat has no authority to block or cancel any IAEA activities," Dujarric added.
        
        Dujarric was responding to an accusation by Russia that U.N. security had blocked a visit by IAEA inspectors to Europe's largest nuclear power plant, which Russia seized in March following its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.