KALININGRAD, June 6. /TASS/. Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation, has said that relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have not been trouble-free because its reports contain signs of "double standards."
"Certainly, I must say that we do not have smooth relations with the IAEA on the whole, to put it mildly. Of course, we often see double standards among a number of IAEA documents. We are observing several camps within the IAEA," Likhachev told journalists following talks with the IAEA delegation in Kaliningrad.
He noted that key concerns involve the operations of the IAEA Board of Governors where only representatives from two European countries, Hungary and Switzerland, as well as IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, are being objective on the issues of nuclear infrastructure security.
"There is the Board of Governors, where the controlling stake, as we say, by almost 100% belongs to the collective West, and completely different opinions are expressed there. And therein lies the problem. <...> Hungary and Switzerland assess the security situation objectively and say that strikes on nuclear infrastructure are inadmissible regardless of their origin. But the lion’s share of the board’s members criticize only purported strikes in the direction of Ukrainian facilities," Rosatom CEO emphasized.