IAEA chief pushes plan to secure Zaporizhzhia NPP - media

IAEA chief pushes plan to secure Zaporizhzhia NPP - media

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IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi is preparing a new security plan for Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

That's according to The Washington Post, Ukrinform reports.

Grossi plans to present a list of five principles for the UN Security Council to endorse later this month, U.S. and European diplomats said.

According to two diplomats familiar with the negotiations, Grossi's plan includes five principles: a ban on stationing heavy military equipment and military personnel at the plant; a ban on firing from and toward the plant, including a ban on attacking the personnel at the site; protection of all safety and security systems at the plant; protection of all external power lines; and monitoring of compliance of the above-mentioned principles.

Read also: Ukrenergo restores power line supplying ZNPP

The plan is less ambitious than Grossi's original effort to establish a fully fledged protection zone around the plant, but nuclear experts said it could still improve the precarious situation.

A spokesperson for the IAEA said that Grossi "remains engaged in intense negotiations with all the involved parties to secure the protection of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant."

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