In Switzerland during the weekend, there was also talk of nuclear safety. The final communiqué of the summit on peace in Ukraine demands that Ukraine regain “total sovereign control” over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe and currently occupied by the Russians.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly warned of the risk of a major nuclear disaster at this facility. The “critical situation” of the plant “is not a theoretical threat but a very real one”, particularly due to the waste which must be permanently cooled, repeated the director of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, in an interview with the newspaper Russian Izvestiaaffirming that it was important “to maintain a constructive dialogue with both parties” to the conflict.
The summit in Switzerland had barely ended, Volodymyr Zelensky estimated that Russia and its leaders “are not ready for a just peace”. Russia can negotiate peace “tomorrow, if it withdraws from our territory,” insisted the Ukrainian president during a press briefing at the end of the conference which brought together leaders from more than 90 countries.
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This weekend in Switzerland the first summit on peace in Ukraine was held in the presence of Volodymyr Zelensky but in the absence of China. The vast majority of countries reiterated their support for Ukraine’s independence and territorial sovereignty while emphasizing that Russia must be part of the discussions to achieve “a lasting and just peace.” But the question of “how and when to involve Russia” remains open, recognized the President of the Swiss Confederation and host of the summit, Viola Amherd.