The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency will likely believe a special inspection of Syria to answer nagging questions over its nuclear activities, the U.S. ambassador to the organization said Tuesday. Glyn Davies was said a number of countries on the IAEA's board of governors support plans to raise the rarely used sanction. Like Iran, Syria is suspected of hiding weapons-associated nuclear activities and has blocked access to a suspected nuclear site destroyed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007.
"We need to keep the focus very much on Iran but stay tuned on Syria, because Syria I think would love to just stave off any serious action to obtain to the bottom of what they were doing," Davies told reporters in London. A recent IAEA report said that uranium particles found at the Dair Alzour waste facility indicate possible covert nuclear activities. The finding supported Western allegations that the bombed goal was a nearly completed nuclear reactor which the U.S. alleges was of North Korean design and planned to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Agency experts inspected Dair Alzour in June 2008, but have since been barred from revisiting.
"Because Syria has stonewalled for years the numbers of questions have continued to accrue about what it is Syria was up to," Davies said. He said there was an increasing consensus among nations on the IAEA board that the issue must be addressed. "A number of countries are opening to ask questions about whether it might not be time to use that device of a special inspection, so that the agency can go in or at slightest go to Damascus," Davies said. Davies acknowledged that a special examination a sanction under which the IAEA's requests for access are made lawfully binding had not been authorized for many years.
"We need to keep the focus very much on Iran but stay tuned on Syria, because Syria I think would love to just stave off any serious action to obtain to the bottom of what they were doing," Davies told reporters in London. A recent IAEA report said that uranium particles found at the Dair Alzour waste facility indicate possible covert nuclear activities. The finding supported Western allegations that the bombed goal was a nearly completed nuclear reactor which the U.S. alleges was of North Korean design and planned to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Agency experts inspected Dair Alzour in June 2008, but have since been barred from revisiting.
"Because Syria has stonewalled for years the numbers of questions have continued to accrue about what it is Syria was up to," Davies said. He said there was an increasing consensus among nations on the IAEA board that the issue must be addressed. "A number of countries are opening to ask questions about whether it might not be time to use that device of a special inspection, so that the agency can go in or at slightest go to Damascus," Davies said. Davies acknowledged that a special examination a sanction under which the IAEA's requests for access are made lawfully binding had not been authorized for many years.
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