Ukraine is not denying its share of the responsibility for the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
"The acquisition of atomic energy was one of the most impressive achievements of humanity in the previous century. We express our sincere sympathy to the Japanese people, we have helped them in any possible way we could, and we will help to participate and bear our responsibility, the share of our responsibility to the people of the world," he said at a meeting of the National Security Council in Kyiv on Friday.
An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported that the agenda of the meeting included issues of improving the state policy on tackling the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster, improving the safety of the operation of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, as well as the issue of granting permission for units of the armed forces of other states to participate in military multinational exercises in 2011.
The issue of holding a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster was also considered at the NSDC meeting.
The president said that at the conference Ukraine would again raise the issue before the world’s public of the ways to solve problems linked to the aftermath of the disaster.
"We, during this conference, should against raise this issue before the world’s public, before society, of how we will solve in the future the problems that still exist at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant," he said.
