The actions of the Russian Federation towards the Ukrainian civilian nuclear power plants, culminating in the occupation and militarization, for the first time in an armed conflict, of a nuclear power plant, the one in Zaporizhzhia, remain deeply worrying, declared Romania’s ambassador to the UN, Cornel Feruta in an interview for AGERPRES.

The Romanian diplomat emphasized that „these actions, together with the continuation of attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, increase the degree of risk of a nuclear accident or incident at these plants, potentially endangering the civilian population of Ukraine and neighboring states alike”.

In the context in which on September 26 the UN General Assembly marks, for the tenth consecutive year, the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Ambassador Cornel Feruta says that „the uttering of nuclear threats, a constant of the Russian Federation’s rhetoric since the beginning of the aggression against of Ukraine, is unacceptable from a permanent member of the UN Security Council, in contradiction with the line agreed and promoted by the five states possessing nuclear weapons recognized by the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) – a nuclear war cannot be won and should never be waged”.

Romania’s ambassador to the UN states that it has now reached „a turning point where, all the more, the rhetoric and irresponsible nuclear actions must stop”.

„In the current international context, we need a return to responsibility in the nuclear field, which responds both to the challenges of the present and to the opportunities of the future, ensuring the foundation of a sustainable development of nuclear energy for the benefit of all, outside the spectrum of the nuclear apocalypse.

Romania continues to join the desire for a world without nuclear weapons, in accordance with the objectives of the NPT, and a process of nuclear disarmament, gradual and pragmatic, which takes into account the global security context and ensuring undiminished security for all states”, Feruta also said in the interview given to AGERPRES.

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