Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia Alemayehu Tegenu Argau. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 14The Rosatom project to build a nuclear power plant in Ethiopia is being implemented according to plan, there are no reasons to stop the project, Ethiopian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alemayehu Tegenu Argau said in an interview with RIA Novosti. NPP together with Rosatom — ed.) is already being implemented, it does not need to be discussed (additionally on the margins of SPIEF — ed.) … There is no reason to stop the project,» the ambassador said. He noted that the project is being implemented according to plan, but until the construction stage has not yet reached. «No, we have not yet reached this stage (the construction of the nuclear power plant), but we are on the way to this, everything is going according to plan. Rosatom is a very clear organization, and everything is progressing well from our side, everything is under control «, the ambassador added. In October 2019, during the Russia-Africa Economic Forum, the Russian Federation and Ethiopia signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of peaceful atom. Earlier, the Ethiopian Minister of Innovation and Technology, Getahun Mekuria Kuma, said that Ethiopia wants to build low-capacity nuclear power units in the next 10 years.
