IAEA cannot name perpetrators of Kursk Nuclear Power Plant attack due to lack of evidence

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 2, ARMENPRESS. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not have enough facts to name those responsible for the attack on the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the Director General of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi told Al Arabiya TV channel.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated that he could not name those responsible for the attacks on the Kursk nuclear power plant. He emphasized that he seeks to independently verify the facts related to nuclear safety incidents and aims to avoid politicizing the situation in the absence of irrefutable  evidence.

"In accordance with the IAEA's mission to protect nuclear safety, we had to go to the Kursk NPP and independently establish the facts. For the sake of impartiality and to be accurate we will confirm the information about the attacks only when we can independently evaluate the data obtained," the head of the agency said.

Grossi noted that the country in whose territory the nuclear facilities under attack are located "has the right to demand that the IAEA name those responsible for violating nuclear safety."