MINSK, 1 October (BelTA) - Belarus' experience in nuclear energy will be useful for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in Minsk on 1 October, BelTA learned.
The president recalled that Belarus has been a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency since the organization was established. According to him, the country has always attached very serious importance to cooperation with the IAEA.
“This is primarily due to the fact that we have become a nuclear power: we have built a nuclear power plant,” the head of state explained. “By the way, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this is the most modern and, I hope, safest nuclear power plant in the world. We built it, figuratively speaking, from scratch. We had no specialists, no experience, and no knowledge of operating a nuclear power plant. But we learned, we trained specialists in time”.
“We received great assistance from the Russian Federation and the IAEA,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “Our plant is safe, and the experience that we have accumulated in Belarus will be useful for the organization anywhere in the world,” the president stressed.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established as part of the United Nations Organization in 1957. The IAEA is headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Over 180 countries are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The organization provides assistance with the development of peaceful applications of nuclear energy, science, and technology; international safeguards against misuse of nuclear technology and nuclear materials; promotes and implements nuclear safety (including radiation protection) and nuclear security standards.
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