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Foreign Minister of Austria and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Sebastian Kurz has addressed on the activity of the Committee of Ministers at the plenary meeting of the spring session of the PACE, APA’s European Bureau reports.
Talking mainly about Ukraine-Russia relations S.Kurz informed participants on organization’s activity to resolve the crisis as well as on taken measures and adopted documents.
He underlined that European Council’s contribution for the elimination of Ukrainian crisis is very important and specific working group has been established on this issue. Austrian Minister also emphasized the importance of adopting a new constitution in Ukraine.
Then Sebastian Kurz has answered the questions addressed by the assembly members.
A member of the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE Rafael Huseynov also addressed a question: “Dear Minister, since 2001 , the issues on stopping operation of “Metsamor” Nuclear Power Plant, working with out-of-date technologies and situated in active seismic zone were raised repeatedly and the power plant underwent several failures. Several times different documents were prepared and addresses were made personally by me on this real danger. But there are still no results. Taking increased tendency of earthquakes in the region into consideration, the experts think probability of terrifying accident in the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant is inevitable.
In case of accident including, not only people from Armenia but also millions of people from Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey including other neighbor states some European countries will become victims of this nuclear tragedy. What preventive and concrete measures can be taken on this terrible problem as soon as possible?
Responding to Azerbaijani MP’s question, Austrian Minister noted that the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is not engaged on nuclear energy issues: “So I will answer your question as the Foreign Minister of Austria. The recent events have shown that nuclear centers are not so safe. In this connection, I understand your concern. For example, in my country we’ve decided to abandon nuclear centers and we are concerned of the safety regulations of nuclear centers near to us. Now we mainly focus on new energy sources. We hope that in the future, Europe as a whole will not use nuclear energy. “
Apa.az
