MOSCOW. February 3. /TASS/. A visit to Russia by Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi is being planned for the second half of next week, Russian Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov told TASS on Friday.
"The Russian mission maintains close ties with the IAEA secretariat on the topic of the Zaporozhye NPP. We are looking at organizing Director General Rafael Grossi’s visit to Moscow in the second half of next week," he said.
An IAEA mission, led by its Director General Rafael Grossi, visited the Zaporozhye NPP, which was being shelled by Ukrainian troops, in early September 2022. Several agency employees remained at the nuclear plant as observers after the mission departed. In its report issued after the visit, the IAEA called for the immediate establishment of a safety zone around the Zaporozhye plant to prevent a possible "nuclear incident" triggered by hostilities. The IAEA chief is negotiating the project with the Russian and Ukrainian sides.