MOSCOW – The leader of the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring organization held talks Thursday with Russia’s top nuclear energy executive about preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, according to the Russian state corporation.
Rafael Grossi, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency, traveled to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials and is scheduled to sit down with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, according to the TASS news agency.
Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom announced that its chief executive Alexei Likhachev met with Grossi to address key matters. “On the eve of the meeting, the head of the state corporation (Rosatom) Alexei Likhachev and the Director General of the IAEA Rafael Grossi discussed strategic issues concerning the enforcement of the non-proliferation regime and the development of nuclear energy in the world,” the company stated.
Rosatom did not provide additional information about what was discussed during their conversation.
