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General Assembly: 70th plenary meeting, 77th session.

Teams of nuclear safety and security experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are being stationed at Ukraine’s nuclear power plants (NPPs) and the Chornobyl site this week. Their planned long-term presence at the facilities marks a major expansion in the IAEA’s efforts to help reduce the risk of a severe nuclear accident during the ongoing conflict in the country. IAEA

Zaporizhzhia plant must have security protection zone around it to avoid nuclear catastrophe, International Atomic Energy Agency Director warns Security Council.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Security Council, "The Russian military has turned the territory of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia power plant, into a war zone. This is a fact,” adding that “Russia should unconditionally stop nuclear blackmail.” UNIFEED

Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, told the Security Council that the United Nations “remains gravely concerned about the dangerous situation in and around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine” and that any potential damage to the facility is “suicidal”. UNIFEED

United Nations ‘gravely concerned’ by situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, political affairs chief tells Security Council.

Humanity’s just one misunderstanding away from ‘nuclear annihilation’, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns Member States gathered at the opening of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Speakers debate terms, merits of cross-border aid operations in Syria’s north-west, as General Assembly considers Security Council text vetoed by Russian Federation.

Speakers debate terms, merits of cross-border aid operations in Syria’s north-west, as General Assembly considers Security Council text vetoed by Russian Federation.