VIENNA, March 5. /TASS/. Western countries that do not possess nuclear weapons but actively engage in public discussions about the prospects of their development pose a real threat to the non-proliferation regime, Russia’s Permanent Representative at International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should strengthen inspections in these states, he noted.
TASS has compiled the key statements made by the Russian permanent representative.
The concept of nuclear safety in armed conflict developed by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has been discredited by the US and Israeli strikes on Iran: "These elements have been completely discredited. No one — neither Canada, nor the Netherlands, nor the agency's director general — remembered them during the Twelve-Day War last summer. No one remembered them during the ongoing aggression against Iran either."
The only real threat to the security of the Zaporozhye nuclear power station "remains the ongoing Ukrainian provocations."
