The activity of the DPRK in the area previously closed nuclear site in Yongbyon goes beyond the mere maintenance of order in the territory, noted American experts from the portal 38 North, after analysis of satellite images.
According to the portal, the commercial satellite images for the last year show a "small activity" in the area of nuclear scientific research center in North Korea in Yongbyon. Pictures show the periodic appearance in the area of the plant for uranium enrichment (UEP) specialized railway cars and trailers, which "can be a tank of liquid nitrogen". In addition, some ongoing construction around the main research and administrative center.
Statement of Lithuania regarding the safety of the NPP is a political attack aimed to "prick" Minsk, practical impact, they can not provide, said Deputy state Secretary of the Union state Alexei Kubrin.
"No practical impact and effects of such statements can not provide," - said Kubrin.
The safety of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is a priority, close cooperation with the IAEA goes with the beginning of the nuclear project, said the Director of the Department of nuclear energy Ministry of Belarus Vasily polyukhovich.
"The safety of nuclear plants is a priority for us. A system of supervision of the construction of a nuclear power station, which includes both departmental and public oversight," polyukhovich said during the online conference "Nuclear energy in Belarus: benefits and prospects".
Armenia's permanent representative to the international organizations in Vienna Armen Papikyan at the meeting with the Director General of the IAEA Rafael Grossi spoke about the Azerbaijani threats to strike at the Armenian NPP, said on Saturday the press service of the foreign Ministry of the Republic.
Earlier, the head of the press service of the Azerbaijani defense Ministry, Colonel Vagif Dargyakhli warned that in "case of attack on Mingechevir reservoir, the Azerbaijani armed forces can strike back at the Metsamor nuclear power plant, which will turn the Yerevan tragedy."
South Africa, estimated interim financial results for the period of the pandemic, decided to save their own economy, returning to the plans for the construction of nuclear power plants. The Minister of energy and mineral resources Guide Mantashe recently notified the public that the government revived the project of construction of two nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 2.5 GW as an instrument of salvation of the national economy.
South Africa rarely gets to strip the Russian press, and therefore to compile a complete picture will make a small digression.
Joint comprehensive plan of action (SVPD) on the Iranian nuclear program can still be saved through political will and concerted steps the remaining participants, said the Ambassador of Iran in Russia Kazem Jalali.
"At the time of conclusion of the AGREEMENT of almost all members acknowledged that it was a win-win agreement, but after five years of consistent blows to SVPD and it unbalanced the performance of the feature of the document disappeared. However, still a chance to save SVPD, to create balance we need the political will and practical action the remaining members of the SVPD" - quoted Jalali diplomatic mission.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree approved the draft Protocol on amendments to the agreement with Russia on granting a loan for the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant as a basis for negotiations, says the document published Saturday on the National legal Internet portal.
"To approve the draft Protocol on amendments to agreement between the government of the Republic of Belarus and the government of the Russian Federation about provision to the government of the Republic of Belarus state export credit for the construction of a nuclear power plant on the territory of the Republic of Belarus of 25 November 2011 as the basis for negotiations", - stated in the decree. The draft Protocol will not be published.
If the United States extended an arms embargo against Iran, we can say the death of a Joint comprehensive plan of action (SVPD) on Iran's nuclear program, said Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali.
"Recently they (the U.S. - ed.) initiated the meeting of the UN security Council with the aim to create preconditions for the renewal of the arms embargo against Iran. If the United States will succeed, it will be possible to ascertain the death of SVPD," said Jalali in an interview with TV channel "Russia 24".
The assertion that testing Russia's advanced weapons "Poseidon" and "savages" could become the reason of increase in background radiation over Northern Europe, absolutely groundless, said RIA Novosti Deputy foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
"Of course, I drew attention to these materials, but I want to say that this is not the first nor the last case. We will see in the future many more occasions when on the American side, followed by a stuffing information, and anonymous, and on behalf of the responsible persons. Stuffing about continuing our work in the field of development of perspective systems of nuclear deterrence," said Ryabkov, commenting on the materials of some Western media, which States that the level of radiation over Northern Europe may have increased because of test "of Poseidon" and "Petrel".
The international atomic energy Agency on Friday confirmed that the fire at the facility in Iran nuclear materials, said in a statement released by the press service of the Agency.
"Iran informed the IAEA about the fire in the building on site for uranium enrichment at Natanz on Thursday morning. Iran also informed the IAEA that the fire was quickly extinguished and that the building was not a nuclear or other radioactive materials", - stated in the message.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif has sent the EU a letter, listing all the points of non-compliance by France, Germany and great Britain the conditions of the nuclear deal, Tehran is going to solve them through a joint Committee.
"A day earlier, the Iranian foreign Minister in a letter to the high representative of the Union for foreign Affairs and coordinator of the SVPD Josep Borrell again listed cases of non-compliance of the European countries (the nuclear deal), sending (a letter) with the aim of their solution in the joint Commission under paragraph 36 of the AGREEMENT", - said official representative of MFA of Iran Abbas Mousavi.
The Central authority responsible in Finland for radiation and nuclear safety, denied on Friday the rumors about radiation from Russia.
"The rumors circulating in the social networks, warning about the dangers of radiation in Finland caused fire on Russian nuclear power plant are untrue," - said in the message of Management on radiation and nuclear safety (STUK) on Twitter.
The special representative of the President of the United States on arms control Marshal Billingsley called "terrible" Russian projects of missiles, "Burevestnik" and "Poseidon" and urged to close them.
He commented on an article in Forbes magazine, which put forward the theory that the alleged cause have recently been discovered by the Swedes enhance background radiation could be testing one of these missiles.
A small increase in the concentration of radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere over the territory of Northern Europe may be related to work at nuclear reactor, geographic location of emission has not yet been determined, the statement said the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA).
Earlier, the IAEA said that emissions over Northern Europe poses no danger to human health and the environment.
Tehran considers all the scenarios around the arms embargo and the resolution of the IAEA, but to hurry with the answer is not, told RIA Novosti the official representative of the government of Iran, Ali Rabia.
According to him, resolution of the IAEA for admission to the two disputed nuclear sites in Iran and US attempts to renew the arms embargo Tehran sees as two different issues.
More than 40 countries have informed the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA) that in their territory there were no events that could lead to an increased concentration of radioisotopes in the air, follows from a press release on the website of the IAEA.
"By Tuesday night a total of 37 participating countries in the European region (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Republic of Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom) ... told the IAEA that their territory was not of events that could lead to the release," - said in a press release. These countries also provided information on the results of own measurements.
A small increase in concentrations of radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere over the territory of Northern Europe poses no danger to human health and the environment, the statement said the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA).
At the end of last week, some media reported that in early June, the authorities of nuclear and radiation safety in Sweden, Norway and Finland recorded in the atmosphere over the territory of Northern Europe a slight increase in the concentrations of radioactive isotopes with so-called reactor origin. It was also reported that, according to calculations by the National institutes of health and the environment (RIVM) of the Netherlands, these isotopes allegedly received from Russia, and that the cause of the incident may be the depressurization of the fuel element in a reactor of any nuclear power plant.
The situation with coronavirus infection at the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant due to the measures taken has changed for the better, said General Director of Rosatom state Corporation Alexey Likhachev.
At the end of may Likhachev reported that about a hundred people working at the site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant was infected with coronavirus. Today in a video message to the employees of the Russian nuclear industry, he called the NPP "a good example" of the effectiveness of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.
UN Secretary-General antónio Guterres, in his report urged Iran to return to the full performance of the obligations under the Joint comprehensive plan of action.
As recalled by the Secretary General, from July 2019, Iran has taken a number of steps to termination of their obligations in the nuclear field in the framework AGREEMENT. Guterres pointed out that on 5 January 2020, Tehran announced that it had undertaken their fifth and last step, in order to "get out of your last operational restrictions within the plan, namely the restriction on the number of centrifuges".
Providing maximum pressure on Tehran does not help in resolving the situation around Iran's nuclear issue and will not address the concern of the parties, said at a briefing on Monday, the official representative of the Chinese foreign Ministry Zhao Lijiang, commenting on the statement "eurothree".
Earlier, the foreign Ministers of Germany, France and the UK urged Iran to promptly and fully cooperate with the IAEA and grant access to sites, as required by the organization. The statement stressed that "eurotroika" with deep concern took note that Iran for many months prevents the required access by IAEA inspectors, thus the organization is unable to implement its mandate.
Iranian MPs demanded the government to suspend IAEA verification in relation to nuclear activities in the Islamic Republic.
The press service of the Parliament reported that the government appealed the 240 members of the new Parliament, asking the Executive to suspend the implementation of the Additional Protocol to the safeguards Agreement with the IAEA.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of lying to the international community to have the ability to create nuclear weapons, and noted that now it is clear, and the IAEA.
"Iran continues to lie to the international community to obtain nuclear weapons. Even today, the IAEA understands this," Netanyahu said during the Cabinet meeting, adding that the IAEA report "speaks for itself".
IAEA resolution on access to nuclear facilities in Iran irresponsible of eurotroika (Britain, France and Germany) proposing to her, tries to leave from execution of the nuclear deal, said the official representative of Iranian foreign Minister Abbas Mousavi.
"The resolution of the Board of Directors is fully devoid of constructive step which I regret, because Iran has a higher level of cooperation with the IAEA," said Mousavi, whose statement was published by the Department.
The foreign Ministers of Germany, France and the UK urged Iran to promptly and fully cooperate with the IAEA and grant access to sites, as required by the organization, said in a statement after the end of the meeting of Ministers in Berlin.
"The E3 initiative at the last meeting of the IAEA Board of governors was adopted by a large majority resolution. We thank the IAEA for its work on the validation of the obligations of Iran in regard to safeguards and urge Iran promptly and fully cooperate with the IAEA and grant access to sites, as required by the organization", - reads the statement of the Ministers.
The United States suspect that nuclear materials could be located at three sites in Iran, including those two, that achieves the IAEA, said at the briefing, assistant Secretary of state for non-proliferation Christopher Ford.
"Now there is evidence about the potential are not declared nuclear materials or activities over a certain number of facilities in Iran. There are two objects to which the IAEA has requested access, and there is one object, which was found... information about the particles of uranium, and this suggests a potential presence at some moment not of declared nuclear material," said Ford.
The United States urges Russia and China to defend Iran from the attention of the IAEA, said the US special envoy on Iran Brian hook.
On Friday, the IAEA Board of governors adopted a resolution urging Iran to provide access to two sites that want to visit an Agency. Russia and China voted against it.
There are no hints that Iran currently has nuclear activities at two sites, the resolution on which is adopted the IAEA, said on Friday Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov.
The IAEA Board of governors on Friday by a majority vote adopted a draft resolution of the EU Troika with (France, Germany, UK) on the inspectors access to two nuclear facilities in Iran.
Eurotroika made qualitative changes to the draft resolution on Iran in IAEA, taking into account Russian comments, but it is very likely that with the adoption of the resolution, the situation is even more complicated, said on Friday Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov.
The IAEA Board of governors on Friday by a majority vote adopted a draft resolution of the EU Troika with (France, Germany, UK) on the inspectors access to two nuclear facilities in Iran.
The intervention of the governing Council in the delicate question of the access of IAEA inspectors to the facilities in Iran are not required and counterproductive, said on Friday Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov.
The IAEA Board of governors on Friday by a majority vote adopted a draft resolution of the EU Troika with (France, Germany, UK) on the inspectors access to two nuclear facilities in Iran.
The EU Troika with a resolution on the admission of IAEA inspectors to two nuclear facilities in Iran was supported by 25 members of the Board of governors, said in a statement published on the official website of the IAEA.
"The IAEA Board of governors today adopted a resolution calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate fully with IAEA in implementing comprehensive safeguards agreements under the NPT and the additional Protocol, as well as to satisfy IAEA requirements without delay" - said in a statement.
Draft resolution of the EU Troika with (France, Germany and the UK) access to two nuclear facilities in Iran made a split in the work of the Board of governors of the IAEA, told RIA Novosti informed source.
The IAEA Board of governors on Friday adopted the draft resolution.
The IAEA Board of governors by a majority vote adopted a draft resolution of the EU Troika with (France, Germany, UK) on the inspectors access to two nuclear facilities in Iran, reported RIA Novosti informed source.
The voting took place on Friday, and was attended by 35 members of the IAEA Board of governors.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif said of a possible "reasonable decision" in response to the requirement of IAEA access to two nuclear facilities.
Speaking to the IAEA Board of governors on Monday, the Agency's Director General Rafael Grossi called on Iran to provide immediate access to two facilities that already more than four months Tehran will not allow inspectors of the organization.
U.S. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo called on the international community to demand Iran's full cooperation with the IAEA.
Speaking to the IAEA Board of governors on Monday, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called on Iran to provide immediate access to two facilities that already more than four months Tehran will not allow the Agency's inspectors. Director General of the IAEA also expressed concern that almost a year Iran will not enter into meaningful discussion to clarify issues related to possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear activity. At the same time, Grossi said that Iran is on the same level continues to cooperate with the IAEA on monitoring of the implementation of the nuclear deal, despite the January statement of Tehran on the termination of all obligations of the AGREEMENT.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi on Monday urged Iran to provide immediate access to two objects, which Tehran for four months will not allow the Agency's inspectors.
"I call on Iran for the immediate and full cooperation with the Agency, including to provide immediate access to these us facilities," added Grossi.
The IAEA monitors the nuclear program of the DPRK, using satellite imagery and open sources of information, said on Monday the head of the Agency and Rafael Grossi.
"The Agency continues to monitor the DPRK's nuclear programme using open-source information and satellite imagery. We remain ready to play an important role in monitoring the DPRK's nuclear programme, if there was a political agreement between countries concerned," said Grossi, speaking before the Agency's Board of governors.
Launch date of the first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be determined later in the week, the parties expect that it was fully operational in February 2021, said the Ambassador of Belarus in Moscow Vladimir Semashko.
"In unit 1 we are here just a week together with colleagues from the leadership of Rosatom will decide the specific date of physical start - up," Semashko said during an online conference.
China considers the preservation of the Joint comprehensive plan of action, the only right way to solving the Iranian nuclear issue, hopes to maintain a dialogue and cooperation between the IAEA and Iran as part of the deal, he said at a briefing on Monday, the official representative of the Chinese foreign Ministry Hua Chunying.
Previously, the Agency France Press, citing a report by the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA) reported that the amount of enriched uranium in Iran exceeds nuclear deal 2015 limit of nearly eight times. The Agency also informs that the IAEA report expresses concern about Iran's refusal to provide access to two nuclear facilities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the international community to "paralyzing" sanctions against Iran and noted that the situation of coronavirus has not diminished Israel's determination to act against Tehran.
Previously, the Agency France Press, citing a report by the International atomic energy Agency (IAEA) reported that the amount of enriched uranium in Iran exceeds nuclear deal 2015 limit of nearly eight times, the Agency also informs that the IAEA report expresses concern about Iran's refusal to provide access to two nuclear facilities.
The international atomic energy Agency put 80 countries diagnostic equipment COVID-19, in the coming days and weeks, delivery will continue, said Thursday in a press-service of the organization.
We are talking about 250 games with diagnostic equipment and instruments, reagents and consumables to speed up the testing process, and equipment for personal protection and laboratory cabinets for safe analysis of samples. The first country which received assistance from the Agency, was Peru.
