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ARMENIAN NPP REGIONAL SECURITY THREAT - ALIYEV
Interfax
March 27 2012
Russia
The nuclear power plant built in Armenia back in 1976, is obsolete,
does not meet current nuclear security standards and, on top of that,
is located in a highly-seismic zone, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
said at a nuclear security summit in Seoul.
"All this turns the Armenian NPP into a source of danger," Aliyev
was quoted by Azerbaijan's official media outlets.
Today, nuclear security is of great importance for the whole world,
including Azerbaijan, which respects the relevant international
resolutions, has always backed and complied with them, the president
said.
Nuclear security was and remains a priority for the Armenian
authorities, Armenian President Serzh Sargsian said for his part.
"Our priority is to ensure safe operation of the Armenian NPP and
to raise the level of its safety. We strictly abide by the IAEA
(International Atomic Energy Agency) requirements," the president
told the nuclear security summit in Seoul.
It is also important to prevent energy resources from turning into
"a malicious political capital," which has an adverse effect on
countries without natural energy resources, he said.
"Two of Armenia's four immediate neighbors have been holding
our country in a blockade for two decades now, by violating the
international law, without leaving, among other problems, any
alternative to ways toward energy independence," Sargsian said.
"I am not surprised by the blatant misinformation about the Armenian
NPP, voiced by the Azeri president here, since the spread of slander
about Armenia has long become a mode of operation in Azerbaijan,"
Sargsian was quoted as saying by the Armenian presidential office.
Interfax
March 27 2012
Russia
The nuclear power plant built in Armenia back in 1976, is obsolete,
does not meet current nuclear security standards and, on top of that,
is located in a highly-seismic zone, Azeri President Ilham Aliyev
said at a nuclear security summit in Seoul.
"All this turns the Armenian NPP into a source of danger," Aliyev
was quoted by Azerbaijan's official media outlets.
Today, nuclear security is of great importance for the whole world,
including Azerbaijan, which respects the relevant international
resolutions, has always backed and complied with them, the president
said.
Nuclear security was and remains a priority for the Armenian
authorities, Armenian President Serzh Sargsian said for his part.
"Our priority is to ensure safe operation of the Armenian NPP and
to raise the level of its safety. We strictly abide by the IAEA
(International Atomic Energy Agency) requirements," the president
told the nuclear security summit in Seoul.
It is also important to prevent energy resources from turning into
"a malicious political capital," which has an adverse effect on
countries without natural energy resources, he said.
"Two of Armenia's four immediate neighbors have been holding
our country in a blockade for two decades now, by violating the
international law, without leaving, among other problems, any
alternative to ways toward energy independence," Sargsian said.
"I am not surprised by the blatant misinformation about the Armenian
NPP, voiced by the Azeri president here, since the spread of slander
about Armenia has long become a mode of operation in Azerbaijan,"
Sargsian was quoted as saying by the Armenian presidential office.