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"Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of the PSE Group in support of the Virrankoski report, which gives Parliament the go-ahead to grant a further contribution – as the rapporteur himself explained – to complete the Chernobyl Shelter. I endorse Mr Virrankoski’s reasons for his choice and, in particular, I endorse the European Union’s decision to contribute practically to creating safe conditions in the wake of the 1986 disaster. The European Union has been the largest donor by far, not just as regards Chernobyl but also with regard to safety and preventing the nuclear contamination of the Newly Independent States. We were right to do this: none of us can forget the 1986 disaster and nobody is yet fully aware of the devastating effects it has caused and, I regret to say, may still cause. As Mr Virrankoski pointed out, the tomb of Chernobyl still contains 200 tonnes of uranium and a tonne of plutonium, which represent a permanent danger which might – and I stress, might – also be a prime target for traffickers. However, this was and is still a transparent, legitimate choice in legal terms: indeed, the new Tacis regulation states that the contribution to the initiatives supported by the European Union, such as the initiative on the closure of Chernobyl, will be one of the nuclear safety priorities.
In conclusion, this was and is, above all, something which the European Union has a duty towards the new generations to do."@en1
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