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The
wording of the draft resolution circulated by Canada to other
countries on the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation
Board of Governors is similar to that of the two previous
resolutions passed by the board in March and September, which
also deplored Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The first resolution focused on Russia's occupation of
radioactive waste facilities at Chernobyl, the site of the
world's worst nuclear accident in 1986. The day after that
resolution was passed, Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear
power plant, Europe's largest.
"(The board) calls upon the Russian Federation to abandon its
baseless claims of ownership of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power
Plant, to immediately withdraw its military and other personnel
from the plant, and to cease all actions against, and at, the
plant and any other nuclear facility in Ukraine," said the text
circulated ahead of a board meeting later this week.
The previous resolutions were passed with large majorities, with
only Russia and China opposing them. The quarterly board meeting
starts on Wednesday.
The IAEA has been calling for a protection zone around
Zaporizhzhia to reduce the risk of a catastrophic accident.
Shelling has damaged buildings and cut power lines essential to
cooling reactor fuel and avoiding a nuclear meltdown. Russia and
Ukraine blame each other for the shelling.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy; editing by John Irish and Jon
Boyle)
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