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Guterres, stop 'suicide' attacks on nuclear power plants

Allow IEA access to the Zaporizhzhia plant

08 August, 09:49
(ANSA-AFP) - TOKYO, 08 AGO - The U.N. secretary-general called at a press conference in Tokyo for a halt to any "suicidal" military operations at nuclear power plants and particularly around the one in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, so that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can access them.

"Any attack on nuclear power plants is suicidal," he said. "I hope these attacks will end. At the same time, I hope the IAEA can access the power plant" at Zaporizhia, Europe's largest, the scene since last Friday of bombings whose Russian and Ukrainian belligerents have blamed each other.

The secretary-general fears that the ongoing events in Ukraine could escalate into a protracted conflict, Tass reported, and said he was "very concerned" about the possibility of a "protracted" conflict, "which is causing enormous suffering and having a very negative impact on the global economy." "The difficult thing, for a cease-fire, comes from the simple fact that "it is not possible to reconcile the positions" of Moscow and Kiev, he added. (ANSA-AFP).

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