Churkin: Russia does not supported the UNGA resolution on the IAEA report
Olga Denisova. The main Assembly of the UN adopted a resolution on the annual report of the international atomic energy Agency (IAEA), Russia abstained from voting.
The document was adopted by 99 votes in favour, Russia was among the ten countries that abstained In the vote, 84 countries took part in it.
"report on the implementation of safeguards for 2014" was shown at the session of the IAEA Board of governors in June of this year. Then Russia expressed its disagreement with the approach of specialists in the preparation of the report, for example, " a bias in favor of work with sources of information, as a public character, and received from interested parties than to the results of inspections ". Also Russia expressed its disagreement with what the research nuclear reactor IR-100 in Sevastopol National University of nuclear energy and industry was assigned To Ukraine.
Speaking in the General Assembly, Russia's envoy to the UN Vitaly Churkin Also said that in the process of working on the project of the decision of the GA of the United Nations on the IAEA report, Russia "has shown maximum flexibility in order to preserve the possibility of consensus decision-making. "" it was spoken only about the fact that in the text mentioned our reservation made on the annual IAEA report. We have not objected to the mention of alternative views ", - said Churkin.
"Unfortunately, a number of countries, and the IAEA Secretariat has chosen to ignore objective reality. Not negated solely by the fact that Crimea is an inseparable part of Russia, but even the fact that our country has made a reservation To the annual report of the IAEA, " said Russian permanent representative. In this regard, Russia has shown support for the draft decision of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol became the Russian regions according to the results of the referendum on 16 March 2014, where more than 90% of the participants voted for secession from Ukraine and reunification with Russia.