KIEV, Ukraine - President of the Russia argued Tuesday that guidelines international tough could help prevent accidents such as the massive debacle Chernobyl, defending nuclear energy in solemn ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in history.
Dmitri Medvedev and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych took part in a religious service outside the damaged Chernobyl No. 4 reactor, laying the first stone of a monument workers cleaning and deposit bouquets of red roses to an another monument to the victims of Chernobyl.
Medvedev said that he has invited the leaders of the world to work on the rules of safety of nuclear energy. His economic adviser, Arkady Dvorkovich, said Russia sent its proposals to the leaders of the other countries of the Group of eight Tuesday, and hoped that they would be reviewed at the Summit of the month next in France.
"It is essential that we understand what kind of force humanity is faced with so that our solutions... the challenges of nuclear energy,"Medvedev said."".
On April 26, 1986 accident spread a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in highly affected areas of the Ukraine, the Belarus and the Western Russia. He left forest and again contaminated agricultural land, offering a warning to the Japanese of the long-term effects of their own nuclear disaster at the nuclear plant of Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The accident has fostered a deep distrust among many others in the affected areas, where the Soviet leaders waited for days inform people of the accident, to evacuate their contaminated areas and to warn them how to reduce health risks. Medvedev called that a major mistake.
"The Government's obligation is to tell the truth to his people." We have to admit that the Government always acted the right way, "he says. "We must all be honest, we must give absolutely clear information about what is going on.
Yanukovych stressed that nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl and the nuclear explosion at Fukushima on any planet, renew appeals for money to build a new, more secure shelter on the damaged reactor. The Ukraine still needs to raise some 300 million dollars to cover the plant, which remains an exclusion zone, a quarter of a century after the disaster.
"Everyone is convinced that disasters have no borders and Fukushima-1 serves as a bitter example that," said Yanukovych. "No nation can only disaster battle."
Despite the dangers, the three countries most affected former Soviet continue to believe that nuclear energy. Vladislav Bochkov, spokesman for the Russian nuclear energy agency, said 11 reactors are currently under construction in Russia. The Ukraine is building two and Belarus is the construction of a reactor.
The Belarus reactor was built near the border with the Lithuania, where demonstrations took place Tuesday by militants who believe that the project is dangerous.
The Kremlin said that Medvedev launches a call to safety standards more stringent for the construction and operation of nuclear power plants, increasing the responsibility of the Governments when dealing with the consequences of possible nuclear accidents and requiring Governments to provide full information on possible nuclear disasters.
The Chernobyl explosion released about 400 times more radiation than U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. World Health Organization of the United Nations said at a Conference in Kiev last week that among the 600 000 people more heavily exposed to radiation, 4 000 cancer deaths more than average are supposed to be finally found.
Artur Tverdokhlebov, 80, a former subway worker, joined some 3,000 victims of Chernobyl at a memorial service at a monument in Kiev.
"Chernobyl is a wound in the soul of our people," said Tverdokhlebov, which was carried emergency clean up the consequences of Chernobyl in May 1986. "The authorities kept secret, which was really happened, nobody tells us nothing about the danger and we ate fish that we took in the River."
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus cut packages of benefits for workers sickened by recent years cleaning and memorial events were eclipsed by their complaints for more assistance. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov promised Tuesday that the benefits for the victims of Chernobyl would continue to pay.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who was blacklisted by the European Union, after a violent crackdown on activists of the opposition late last year took no part in the Ukraine memorial events.
It has been suggested that he was not invited.
"Ask Yanukovych this question - why is not this President to their events." "Ask them," Lukashenko told journalists during a visit to the contaminated regions of Chernobyl in Belarus. "Unfortunately, the current Ukrainian leadership is really ugly."
Some observers believe that the Ukraine wanted to mark the anniversary of Chernobyl without Lukashenko to please Brussels seeks EU membership.
The European Commission, last week promised an another European million ($156 million) program to liquidate the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion.
Lukashenko said Belarus also needs Western aid but had no intention to ask.
In recent years on the anniversary of Chernobyl, Belarusian opposition led a March of protest across the capital, Minsk, channeling anger towards authoritarian Government and fears that it seeks to hide the truth about the consequences of the nuclear disaster.
This year, the March was banned and a gathering of evening relegated in a park on the outskirts.
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Anna Melnichuk Kiev, Vasilyeva Nataliya in Moscow and Yuras Karmanau Minsk contributed to this report.
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