Kyiv Summit on Safe and Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy

On April 19, 2011, upon an initiative of President of Ukraine Mr.Viktor Yanukovych, a high-level meeting “Kyiv Summit on Safe and Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy” was held in Kyiv.

Mrs. Karen Ellis, Associate Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada, headed the Canadian delegation on Kyiv Summit on Safe and Innovative Use of Nuclear Energy.

The delegations, representing more than 60 states and international organizations, met in Kyiv to discuss the ways to consolidate efforts of international community aimed at enhancing nuclear energy safety and security and preventing technogenic accidents in the future.

The Kyiv summit participants, including 17 Heads of States and Governments, leaders of international organizations, expressed their belief that implementation of efforts to enhance nuclear safety and security have to continue to be a top priority in all activities related to nuclear energy use. In this regard, Ukraine emphasized that the most effective way in this field is to channel the international cooperation through the innovative use of nuclear energy that is to become a dominant precondition to secure a global regime of operating security and safety for all the states with no exception.

Heads of States and leaders of international organizations advocated the deepening of international cooperation in the field of peaceful, secure and safe nuclear energy use that will contribute to meeting increasing global energy needs, development of new technologies in medicine, agriculture, and other industry sectors of the national economies.

The Chernobyl catastrophe and an accident on the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima have proved the necessity to enhance the nuclear energy facilities’ capabilities to counter emergency situations, and have illustrated that mitigation of nuclear incidents requires the international community to gather scientific, technical and resource capabilities.

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Karen Ellis, Associate Deputy Minister, Natural Resources Canada