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a with with la, the 9100 and 24th meeting of the security council is called to order. the provisional agenda for this meeting is threats to international peace and security agenda is adopted. in accordance with the rule of 37 at the council's provisional rules of procedure and by the representatives of germany and ukraine to participate in this meeting,

it is so decided in accordance with the rule, 39 of the councils provisional rules of procedure. i invite mister raw found marianna grossi director general of the international atomic energy agency to participate in this meeting. it is so decided security council will now begin with consideration of item 2 of the agenda. i would like to warm the welcome sector, general, his excellency, mr. antonio with tennis and give him the for mr. president, your excellency's. i would like to thank you for having organized this meeting on the evolving situation inside and around the nuclear. this apparition, nuclear power plant in the south of ukraine. i would like to applaud the

international atomic energy agency and the mission led by director general grosse for their efforts and for their courage allow me also to sank it the for the parties. if for their cooperation, i will, of course, leave it up to the director general grossi a presenter with him and his team, or able to observe during their stay there. the secretary of the united nations has proudly supported the i a in it's essential mission named, insuring the safety of the operation of the nuclear power plant. i would like to personally thank all the colleague su, assisted them, and in particular the, the 13 experts from the un secretary in charge of support and security safety who played a key role in order to allow the i mission to deploy it successfully. i didn't is that i remained gravely concerned about the situation in and around as our bodies, your plan,

including reports of recent shelling. let's tell it like it is. any damage where that intentional or not to europe's largest nuclear power plant in our body here, or to any other nuclear facility in ukraine, could spell catastrophe. not only for the immediate vicinity, but for the region and beyond. all steps must be taken to avoid such a scenario. common sense and corp must guide the way forwards any action that's my to endanger, the physical integrity, the safety or security of the nuclear plant is an acceptable all efforts to establish the planters purely civilian infrastructure, are vital. as a 1st step, ration and ukrainian forces must commit not to engage in any military activity towards the plant site or from the plant site zap,

what is your facility and the surroundings must not be a targets on a platform for military operations. is a 2nd step. an agreement on a demilitarized perimeter should be secured. specifically, that will include the commitment by russian forces to withdraw all military personnel and equipment from that perimeter. and the commitment by ukrainian forces not to move into its operators at the plant must be able to carry out their responsibilities. and communications must be maintained. now is the time to urgently agree on concrete measures to ensure the safety of the area. mister president's regrettably last month's the tense review conference of the parties stood at 3 t on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons fell victim to the war in ukraine. the outcome document software, the as the issue of the safety and security of nuclear power plants, unarmed conflict zones,

including in ukraine. but the confidence failed to reach consensus to utilize the opportunity to strengthen the 3 ti. i appealed to all states to use every avenue of dialogue and diplomacy to make progress on this critical issues. mr. president, looking ahead, i trust that the i a yay, experts now the blight to support each year will be able to carry out their work without insurance and country will to ensuring blasting nuclear safety and security in the plans. olivers of a stake in the success of their critical mission. let us commit to do everything we can to support them and let us resolve to keep working for peace in line with international law and united nations charter. thank you. sure m f c. i thank a cetera general 1st introductory remarks and i know give the floor tomb was to refill mariana grossinger. no. was nasty,

nasty mission, a president thing. mr. president, a pleasure for me to address the security council for the 3rd term is here regarding the situation. ukraine particular pleasure to do it under the french presidency. and i also want to thank the secretary general of his presence amongst ourselves said to day. and as he was referring in his remarks to the remarkable lab work that the un, again, through its personnel to our important mission, by being with them for a few days and sharing some very tennis moments. i could see there. they are heroic dedication and devotion to the cause of the united nations. they do it. imagine secondary general. we will continue, i hope,

working together to bring stability to the nuclear facilities in the ukraine. so today you may have seen that i issued an comprehensive report emanating from the mission. i had the honor to lead last week in the, in ukraine. and there is, it was a breeze ya nuclear power, that these mission has been the result of the painstaking effort of close to 6 months in which strenuous effort where deployed to try to do just that to would be there with our inspectors to address a complete comprehensive report of education to corroborate some facts that we had been observing for the last 6 months, but not stop there. and. and to also provide very,

very concrete recommendations based upon what we saw at the plat, the 1st a important safety a and that exists a nearly nuclear facility is not to violate its physical integrity. and unfortunately, and as i had the opportunity to say, also during the briefing that took place on urban august 11th and the, the chinese presidency. this has happened this happen and this continues to happen. their physical attack, wittingly or unwittingly, or thy hits that this facility has received and that i could personally see and assess it together with my experts is simply an acceptable we are playing with fire and something very, very catastrophic couldn't take place. this is while in our report,

we are proposing the establishing the establishment, sorry, of a nuclear safety and security protection zone, limited to their perimeter and the blank itself. i am going to return to this point later on. the 2nd feeler at that is important and states that all safety and security systems and equipment should operate normally and hindered and be fully functional. we know, and we observed that the operators at the blank were operating under extremely challenging circumstances and, and together with military equipment and, and vehicles and in different parts of it. our concrete recommendation in

this regard is that the military vehicles and equipment that are currently in buildings inside new buildings on the side be removed so as not to interfere with normal operation of the nuclear safety and security system. the 13 states that the operating stop must be able to perform their duties without undue pressures or difficult table status. and of course, this is something that, as you know has been addressed time and again during this crisis. and especially since the nuclear power plant was occupied last march. so we could see we could work together alongside the experts. and we come of course, to the conclusion, which is in the recommendation specific recommendation in my report that the operator should be allowed to return to its clear team line of

responsibilities and authorities. i've done a profit work environment must be established, including proper family needs support for the staff. number 4 is the one that refers to the site power supply. i also refer to these the but that, that's, you know, this is crucially important in the sense that a nuclear power plant without external power supply may lose crucial functionalities including the cooling of their reactors and the spent fuel. without these, we could have a very cds actually that. so regarding this the i. e, a recommend that the site power supply,

line redundancy be reestablished and available at any time for these to be possible military activities that may affect the power supplied systems not be stopped immediately. the feed stays that there must be an interrupted logistical supply chains and transportation. to and from the site, you have to imagine that these nuclear power plant as a 2nd to get out it was rightly reminded us, the biggest in europe is a large industrial site requiring a constant flow of spat barge and other equipment and situation that is of course to wrap it now in the, in the days of the breed recommendations in these regard. all the parties older guard, this should be completed,

ensuring affected supply change. i mean, different god, we would like to remind that would be a assistance and support programs that we applied. for example, each flow of life has been significantly reestablished. and similar mechanism could be applied as the 6 feet are if the one that refers to the functioning of the resolution monitoring system systems to know what it is and whether that heath radiation in the atmosphere. we do have sets of networks of monitoring equipment that have been affected. the concrete and 6 recommendations in our board indicates that the site should continue ensuring this functionality,

including by treatise and exercises where which the i can help in assuring. and the 2nd and final state that there must be continued and reliable communications with the regulator with the ukranian regulator we've, we have seen repeatedly that these lines of communication have been interrupted. so the week amend in its 7 recommendation corresponding to each one of the 7 dealers of the safety security. that reliable and redundant communication means some channels be secured at all times and the are brief. mr. brunson and the mission that took place last week i started one indeed has provided us and the international community with

a precious instrument in the presence of an i a assessment and monitoring mission that could provide our own today with a comprehensive report that provides neutral partial and technical heating of if you creation, but moreover, which is also an enormous by you is the fact that the inspectors all the a have remained at the site. so at the moment, the i v. and through week united nations and international community epic capacity to have direct immediate evaluation of the situation on the ground as it may be the case as it may happen. and these fact is unprecedented in the past. ladies and gentlemen, when i a inspectors where they says we have

a difficult, difficult substances like nope, or is she not or even gone like in iraq, it has always been after the fact it has always been to be got the pieces to be remedied or had already happened, we in this case have the historical epi, go up to prevent something from happening. and by having established these presses by agreeing to special safety and security protection. so we will be able week up the opportunity to prevent these from happening. i see the state that in the report, we are ready to close out quickly and we the parties. we believe that this measure which can because either an entry measure in the hope that other more comprehensive

measures will effective nature in the context of the conflict, which is not the revenue. yeah, yeah, naturally would be every but this is something that can be done. now we have spectres, they have already flowed, doing the work. we can agree on a very simple, but incredibly necessary protective mechanism to what is happening now as we speak, which is the shelling of a nuclear power plant. let's sees these opportunity so fundamental for beef, for security and to protect the populations of ukraine and beyond. i thank you very much, mister president. thank mister grossi for his briefing. i know give the floor to the members of the security council,

and i would like to read away give the floor to the representative of the russian federation. mister president, would like to thank her. the un secretary general mister antonio garage and the director general. i mister rafael grossey. what, thanks for their briefings will pay tribute to mister grosse for his decision to carry out to the agency mission at his approach and p p. that was responsible, a courageous step on the part of a leadership, and it confirms a global role played by the agency in the area of nuclear energy. we're happy that the visit enabled you, director general and your team to personally assess the situation at his approach and p p. and to see that they said when pillars of security that you have formulated, the 7 principles that you have formulated are being strictly adhered to by us. it is important that we heard that in the course of your briefing on the 2nd of

september, it is important that you with your own eyes, could see that thanks to ace cooperation between this staff and b, b. and they rush an armed forces for protecting their station. it's functioning normally and there are no internal threats to its security. you had a very excellent opportunity to see that the only thread are created by the shelling and sabotaged from the ukranian armed forces. and we see a confirmation of that in your conclusion made. and the briefing, when you said the agency is most concerned by the physical security of the stand station and it's integrity and the risks for that have increased because of the shelling in august. we regret that in your report on the safeguards implementation in ukraine since april to september of this year, which appeared literally a couple of hours ago. this source of shelling is not reckon named up with do understand your position as they had to of an international regulator. but in the current situation,

it's very important to call things by the name. perhaps if this document was exclusively on the outcome of your visit chose operation, your conclusions could have been clear and unequivocal. will need additional time to study the document. therefore, i'm not going to dwell on it in detail. i would just simply ask you to please clarify what to military equipment. did you see during your visit to those upper osha and p. p. we are not sitting, sitting idly by and we did not allow or the reckless acts of catering to were passed over in silence at last month with twice convinced a security council meeting on that. and we tried to get to a western colleagues. we explained though there shelling great a real threat of nuclear disaster and the largest nuclear power station in europe. and we called western delegations to give thought to the possible consequences for the people all the content and to rein in their protege and key f. unfortunately, our appeal was not heated and with

a tacit consent of its western backers of the cave regime continued shelling the and b p. they're doing that even today and i will turn to that later in my statement. we will come the decision made by a to establish a permanent present of the agency of the session. this is a qualitative change. the i. e. a will now be able to itself as a situation real time given that to i, inspectors are at the in p. p. prominently anguished and ready to help their work in any way possible. i like to underscore those since the very beginning. we have consistently been supporting the i efforts to ensure the nuclear security of nuclear facilities in ukraine. the russian side has done everything possible to make sure that mr. grow, say, and team reach the end p, p. save carried out their work and returned to vienna, and this was pointed out by the representative of the sector john over un when he underscored i quote that the russian federation has done everything necessary to

ensure the safety of the i. inspectors who visited is up. i wrote a m p p and of quote, we would like to hear your assessment director general of what to what extent is satisfied with your interaction with the russian side in particular in ensuring the mission safety. unfortunately, as we expected, the ukrainian side, a having understood that they will not be able to use the i a visit for their purposes, did everything to make sure it doesn't happen. on the 1st of september you the armed force of your brain for since 5 am, where i'm conducting massive artillery shelling on the station and the town of america data and the continued shelling until the very last moment when the i team was already on the way to the station ukrainian artillery shell, the territorial upper regime, and p p. the place where the i met with a war from specialist at the township of silica and also the route of their

movement to and they are good are for shells exploded 400 meters away. from energy unit number one of the n p p. and is this the way of activity was a direct threat to live life and safety of inspectors. you can buy that wasn't not all. the key of regime continued with a or heinous publication. tried to take the station over by force right before arrival at 6 am on the 1st of september through the cold water reservoir. com. but saboteurs were director of sales towards his station with he would have to create the impression that the armed forces of your grain were successful, so as to help while these landscaping beg for more armaments. and they conducted armed hostilities around the station. this could undermine critically, the stance is stations integrity in case that had been

a successful rafael grosse and the team would have become the human shield of the cranium saboteurs. this was moved. this was stopped thanks to the russian armed forces in the russian guards forces and the vigilance of the locals. as a result, the meeting between the representative of the russian federation that i took place only at noon of 4 hours later than planned webpage tribute to the courage of the agency representative their, their readiness to work literally under fire ukrainian fire. and we would like to ask you, director general, what was the impact on your work over the attempt to buy ukrainian armed forces to abort to the mission? how can you comment upon of these activities by the ukrainian side in the context of threats to safety and security of the station and the safety of the edges? his job? i would like to address a similar question to the secretary general. the d. s. s u n d s. as the staff or part of the i a missions on they were dealing with the issues of safety and