On September 9, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the ninth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises.
On September 9, 2022, Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), in partnership with The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, held the ninth online international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises.
The session addressed the situation around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the latest report of the IAEA, as well as the recent discussion on this issue in the UN Security Council. The participants agreed that reaching an agreement on the safety of the Zaporizhzhia NPS could be a starting point for resuming negotiations on more general issues of the political settlement of the conflict. Leading international researchers from China, the USA, Great Britain, Ukraine, and Russia took part in the event. Russian side was represented at the event by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General.
