IAEA director discusses non-proliferation with head of Russia's Rosatom


Director General of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speak as they attend a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 25, 2025. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov/Pool/File Photo

MOSCOW, March ⁠12 (Reuters) - The director general of ⁠the U.N. nuclear watchdog discussed ‌non-proliferation issues on Thursday with the head of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear energy ​corporation ahead of other ⁠meetings with ⁠officials, the company said.

Emmanuel Grossi, head ⁠of the ‌U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, is due ⁠to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei ​Lavrov ‌on Friday, TASS news agency ⁠reported earlier.

"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," ​Rosatom said.

The statement ⁠gave no other details of the ​discussions.

(Reporting by Reuters; ‌Writing by Maxim Rodionov; ​Editing by Jan Harvey, Ron Popeski and Chizu Nomiyama)

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