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Lukashenko wants Rosatom to stay in Belarus, restart nuclear center

MOSCOW, 25 September (BelTA) – The Russian state nuclear industry corporation Rosatom should not withdraw from Belarus and should resume work on the nuclear center that exists in the country. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement during the international forum World Atomic Week, BelTA has learned.

Aleksandr Lukashenko told Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev: “I would like to once again ask you in public not to withdraw from Belarus. I think I will be able to convince the Russian president that it is necessary to continue working in Belarus. And not only to implement our ideas and yours since the days of [Rosatom’s previous CEO] Sergey Kiriyenko. We should continue working in many areas. Peaceful ones and primarily in the field of healthcare.”

“I kindly ask you to resume our movement regarding the nuclear center in Belarus. I think the president will approve it. I’ve preserved it the way I inherited it from the Soviet Union. It has quite a lot of good materials under the control of [IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano] Grossi. You know it. We religiously honor our commitments,” the head of state added.

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