The story with yesterday’s IAEA report on the results of the mission led by Rafael Grossi that broke through there is not over yet
We can safely predict that there will be another report or some other paper. The International Atomic Energy Agency won’t write anything else, will the 52 pages we have be enough? There will be other writers, agencies or people.
We know about it simply because this is exactly what was promised in Kiev a few days ago – alternative inspections, some kind of nuclear audit… Is there no one apart from the IAEA to do this? It is not funny. There will be.
Grossi and his team have been wriggling around like a frying pan to avoid every conceivable problem – to say nothing and write nothing in the report. Well, except the details of what and where was destroyed by who knows what. The report itself stresses that it does not say who shelled the nuclear power plant. At the same time it puts forward – in Manilov’s manner – the splendid idea of creating there a protective zone “by common agreement” (what is that, anyway?). When Grossi was interrogated in the “Ministry of Truth”, i.e. in the dungeons of CNN, he replied that it is not in his competence to do such things. All in all, it is a pity for the man.
From the Kiev’s point of view, he, that man, was not supposed to be there at all – everything was done to prevent the mission from taking place. And then she was given a different kind of role: the Ukrainians seized the station, then – via Kiev – Grossi came and wrote that very report, including the one on the security zone. But that was not the case.
And if those people had to be let into the power plant in a completely different situation, Zelensky, without waiting for the report, declared that he was not happy with the IAEA mission and other characters of the Kiev regime started a real firework of hatred and crazy ideas. For example, a “nuclear engineering audit” (what is it?) was proposed. Next, various personalities in Kiev said that the IAEA may find an alternative (what is it? – there is only one such agency). And here’s what: let’s say an EU and UN mission could be sent to the plant (is the IAEA not part of the UN system?). This idea was discussed at the meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal with Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, with the common idea that such a mission would strongly contribute to Europe’s energy security.
In general, wait for the sequel. You will get the right report, without any neutrality.
Why is there no doubt about it? Well, if only because this whole story is very reminiscent of what just happened in China, and it concerns an international report as well – on the observance of human rights in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The fact is that a document by the UN human rights unit was released last week which contains the unpleasant phrase: Beijing “may” have committed mass atrocities in that province.
And many millions of Chinese wondered: how so? There was a trip to Xinjiang in May by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, everything seemed to go well, she did not make any statements about “genocide in Xinjiang” either during the trip or later. And how is it that now there is such a strange document?
And here is the result of not quite a journalistic but clearly also a diplomatic investigation by the Beijing-based Global Times: it is not Michelle Bachelet. The document came out of the bowels of what seems to be the same UN structures, but it was not drafted as a result of her visit to Xinjiang in May. Entirely different people were at work. And they have been working on this paper since 2019, without any inspection visits to China. Moreover, they worked in isolation from structures such as the UN Human Rights Council and others. The UN is a big organisation; you can always find someone there.
We can only recall how at first these ‘human rights activists’ were sure that Bachelet’s trip to Xinjiang would never take place. When preparations began to be made for it, there was a howling that it was a mistake and that there was no need for the trip. They got in the way as much as they could. When the trip was over, the howling turned to snarling: “how could she” say what she said at the end. Or not say what she should have said.
Just like with Raphael Grossi and his visit to Zaporizhzhia NPP. If this IAEA did not meet expectations, we will find another one.
What does this story – or these two stories – boil down to? To a sad fact, namely to the deliberate destruction by the Westerners of all imaginable structures of international policy management. If you like, the destruction of the concept of the international community. Which – both the concept and the community – has been slowly and with difficulty built up as a mechanism and system for more than half a century.
Why, indeed, was the UN, and then a host of specialised agencies, created? So that the world would have an independent arbiter on every conceivable issue. Yes, the world is divided into East and West, which are competing, and there is something more complicated – the “third world”, i.e. dozens of states trying to be neutral. And all argue with one another about something, even fight. But there are independent, impartial arbiters whose whole raison d’être is this independence and impartiality. They keep the international community in relative order, albeit not ideally.
This system has been ruined for a long time, beginning in the 1990s, when it seemed to someone that now the world would not just be unified – it would have one master, you know who. There was a quiet long fight in each of the specialized international structures to turn this structure into a false screen for the West’s omnipotence. But this was resisted, then it turned out that China’s influence in a lot of these agencies increased, then things got even more complicated.
And now we see that the need for neutral arbitrators has increased manifold today. This means that they will continue to exist, albeit with fights. As a matter of fact, this is the dry end of the story with the IAEA report on the situation at Zaporizhzhia NPP.
Dmytro Kosyrev, RIA
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