The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, speaking on nuclear safety summit in The Hague, commented the statement by President Ilham Aliyev on the environmental threat from Metsamor.
"I note that we are working closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency in ensuring the safety of the Armenian nuclear power plant, consistently fulfilling the requirements of the Agency's technical document number 640. This is evidenced by the results of the part of the IAEA OSART," he said.
"As for the rumors sounded that supposedly we had problems related to radioactive waste, such a lie in the first place is a manifestation of distrust of international structures, because we coordinate all our programs with the International Atomic Energy Agency," said Sargsyan.
Recall that at the summit, Ilham Aliyev said that the Armenian NPP is a threat to the region as well as its equipment and technology is outdated and radioactive waste from the nuclear power plant infects the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. -02B-
Politics
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Voting in the early elections to the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan began at 8:00. Voting is taking place at 6,478 polling stations throughout Azerbaijan, including the lands liberated from occupation. 990 candidates are competing for 125 seats in the unicameral parliament.
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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