Foreign Minister expressed readiness to accept IAEA inspectors at nuclear sites of the Crimea

Russia expressed readiness to accept IAEA inspections at nuclear sites of the Crimea, if the organization expresses a desire to visit them, told in the Ministry of foreign Affairs.
the Foreign Ministry recalled that " in accordance with the free and voluntary will of the peoples of the Crimea the Crimean referendum on March 16, 2014 and the Treaty on the accession of the Republic of Crimea in the Russian Federation from March 18, 2014 Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol are an integral part of the Russian Federation." Acting within its jurisdiction, the Russian Federation took on his own shoulders the full responsibility for nuclear facilities located in new subjects ", - reported in the report on the Internet office of the foreign Ministry." From March 18, 2014 the agreement of 21 February 1985 between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the IAEA, as well as its additional Protocol of March 22, 2000, extended to the whole territory of the Republic of the Crimea and city of Sevastopol, " said the Foreign Ministry." in case of interest the IAEA to apply safeguards at nuclear facilities on the area of the Republic of the Crimea and city of Sevastopol is ready to provide the Agency with a full opportunity to carry out appropriate inspection activities, " said the Ministry. Yesterday Kiev said on rights to nuclear facilities in the Crimea. In the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine said that attempts to change the legal status of nuclear facilities " creates a direct threat to the international regime established by the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons of 1 July 1968. The story is told, for example, about research reactor DR-100 and other installations of the Sevastopol national University of nuclear energy and industry.

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