EBRD hopes all Chornobyl projects will be fulfilled in 2015
Baku, April 19 (AZERTAC). The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development hopes that the projects to build a new confinement for the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will have been finished in 2015.
The EBRD and its management has centered on this outstanding task and expects the entire workload to be done in 2015, in four years` time, so people in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world feel safe, said EBRD President Thomas Mirow.
Mirow was speaking at a press briefing after a donor conference of the Chornobyl Shelter Fund and Nuclear Safety Account in Kyiv on Tuesday.
French Prime Minister Francois Felon in turn thanked the donor nations, saying that, "the countries that are not ready yet to name the sum they are ready to provide in aid, have given their verbal agreement to continue such cooperation and to make such contributions."
"I think, following an adjustment, that 550 million euros is the minimal necessary sum," Fillon said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"Concerning the EBRD`s additional contribution, I would like to express readiness to gather at a round table again and close the circle, so the workload scheduled for 2015 will be successfully fulfilled," Fillon said.
Ukraine and France were the initiators of the donor conference in Kyiv.
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