Constructing Security: Why Agreement on the Zaporozhye NPP Is So Necessary?

... other similar steps, albeit rather slowly, are bringing the parties closer to resuming talks on more difficult and fundamental issues. A special place in the set of significant “small steps” is taken by efforts to ensure safety and security of the Zaporozhye NPP. The resolution on this issue recently adopted by the IAEA Board of Governors was met with much criticism in Moscow since the document has no mention of the fact that the plant was shelled by the Ukrainian military. Clearly, the final ...