Serzh Sargsyan: No talk of closing the nuke station until Armenia blockade lifted

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan attending the Nuclear Security Council in Seoul, South Korea, made a speech on Tuesday, stressing that Armenia is making concrete efforts to ensure the control over nuclear security.

He also reassured the world community that Armenia fully safeguards the safe operation of its Soviet-built nuclear reactor at the Metsamor plant, whose life span ends in 2016.

Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev took advantage of his participation in the nuclear summit to once again call for the closure of the Armenian nuclear power plant. Speaking there on March 27 he said that the station in Metsamor that was built in 1976 was outdated, did not meet the modern safety standards and is located in a seismic zone. In his opinion, all this has turned it into a source of threat.  Read more... (566 words)

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