The European Union is committed to further improve nuclear safety worldwide and will continue to work with Ukraine and other international donors to ensure that projects in Chornobyl are brought to a successful conclusion.

"Nuclear safety was and remains a very serious matter that deserves our continuous international attention and action to prevent any further disasters… The European Union is committed to further improve nuclear safety worldwide and will continue to work with Ukraine, the EBRD, G7 countries and other international donors to ensure that projects in Chornobyl and in the areas affected by the accident are brought to a successful conclusion," a Tuesday joint statement of EU representatives on the New safe confinement at the Chornobyl NPP says.

The European Union is the largest donor to this fund and has committed so far around EUR 750 million to Chornobyl-related projects.

As reported, on November 29, the ceremony of completing the new safety shield, called the New Safe Confinement, for the Chornobyl sarcophagus was attended by Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko.