Russia blocks UN nuclear treaty agreement due to Zaporizhzhia clause

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant near Enerhodar

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Russia has blocked an agreement at the United Nations that was considered the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament because it objected to a clause about control over the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine.

Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department, told the delayed final meeting of the conference reviewing the 50-year-old Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty that “unfortunately there is no consensus on this document.”